The Romantika is also back for the summer season, partly on the Tallinn-Stockholm route and partly for shorter cruises. They are saving costs to the extent that the Romantika will skip Mariehamn and the tax-free opportunity. (This might have been possible if fuel prices hadn’t risen).
There has certainly been some complaining now that Tallink has no ship on the Paldiski-Kapellskär route, and there have been questions about whether this has caused issues with freight. Well, with this Romantika arrangement, at least a bit of freight can move between the Baltics and Sweden during the week. And didn’t the Romantika potentially go on charter to the Mediterranean at the turn of August/September? Also, what will be the ultimate fate of the Kapellskär-Paldiski route, and if a ship does come, how big will it be?