At the same time, the company's ferries served 2,062,271 passengers, down 5.6% on the previous year's first half result.

The number of travellers on Birka Gotland since the launch of the intra-Baltic cruise service (20 March 2024) was 139,062 (Viking Line shared in its Half year financial report January-June 2024 that "Initial traffic for Birka Gotland has not met the company's expectations and has entailed higher start-up costs than expected").