While the Estonian seaport's prime trade, ferry & ro-ro, advanced by 2.0% year-on-year to 1.62 million tonnes, other cargo segments noted decreases, most notably liquid bulk - down 58.9% yoy to 230 thousand tonnes.

Dry bulk lost 3.5% yoy to 545kt, and containerised freight contracted by 5.0% yoy to 482kt. Container traffic shrank by 3.8% yoy to 60,152 TEUs.

Conversely, break-bulk advanced by 57.3% yoy to 181kt. With 16kt, the handling of goods classified as 'non-marine' was up 297% on the Q1 2025 result.

Tallinn's passenger traffic also noted a downtick, altogether -3.3% yoy to 1.36 million ferry & cruise travellers. The ferry crossing to Helsinki also saw a decrease of 3.3% yoy to 1.23m, followed by -12% yoy to 79 thousand on the service to/from Stockholm. The Muuga-Vuosaari link lost 4.0% yoy, down to 39k. Passengers labelled as 'others' totted up to 10k, up 43.6% yoy.

Unlike in the previous year, the first quarter had already brought cruise guests over Tallinn's quays, 4.0k in total.