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St. Peter Line

St. Peter Line was a water transport company owned by Moby SPL Limited, a Maltese-registered shipping company, which operated services from Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Stockholm and Tallinn. The company was founded in 2010 with it starting operations in April of that year. In December 2010, St. Peter Line acquired the cruiseferry named Pride of Bilbao from Irish Continental Group for €37.7m for a new route between St Petersburg and Stockholm. Limited passenger services were run in 2018, but most of the 2019 programme was cancelled. With the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, the company's only vessel was assigned to special duties in the Kola River in Russia's Murmansk Oblast, providing emergency floating accommodation for workers in an area badly affected by COVID-19. In 2022 the ship was withdrawn because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, transferred to Moby Lines and sailed to Messina for refurbishment. She was set to return to service in the Mediterranean. The company was removed from the Finnish Trade Register during March and May 2026. It was removed from Finnish Employer Register in 31st July 2023.

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St. Peter Line
TypePrivate
IndustryWater transport
Founded2010
2016 as Moby SPL Limited
Defunct2026 (officially)
Headquarters
Valletta
,
Malta
Areas served
Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Russia
ServicesFerries
Port services
Passenger transportation
Freight transportation
OwnerMoby SPL Limited
Websitestpeterline.com/en
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St. Peter Line was a water transport company owned by Moby SPL Limited, a Maltese-registered shipping company,12 which operated services from Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Stockholm and Tallinn. The company was founded in 2010 with it starting operations in April of that year. In December 2010, St. Peter Line acquired the cruiseferry named Pride of Bilbao from Irish Continental Group for €37.7m3 for a new route between St Petersburg and Stockholm. Limited passenger services were run in 2018, but most of the 2019 programme was cancelled. With the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, the company's only vessel was assigned to special duties in the Kola River in Russia's Murmansk Oblast, providing emergency floating accommodation for workers in an area badly affected by COVID-19. In 2022 the ship was withdrawn because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, transferred to Moby Lines and sailed to Messina for refurbishment. She was set to return to service in the Mediterranean.4 The company was removed from the Finnish Trade Register during March and May 2026. It was removed from Finnish Employer Register in 31st July 2023.5

Routes

St. Peter Line operated two routes across the Gulf of Finland.

Route Frequency Crossing time
Helsinki – St. Petersburg – Helsinki 2 crossings per week 14 hours
Stockholm – (Helsinki) – St Petersburg – (Tallinn) – Stockholm 1 crossing per week 38 hours

Fleet

Former vessels

Ship Built In service Tonnage1 Status as of 2021
SPL Princess Anastasia 1986 2011-2022 37,799 GT Now MS Moby Orli with Moby Lines
MS Princess Maria 1981 2010–2016 25,905 GT Scrapped in 2025.
References

References

  1. "Contact Information of the Controller". St. Peter Line. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  2. Bottino, Francesco (19 December 2016). "Moby will be headquartered in Malta to operate in Russia". Ship2Shore. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  3. "Statement re sale of the ferry Bilbao" (PDF). Irish Continental Group. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  4. "News - MOBY SPL".
  5. https://www.kauppalehti.fi/yritykset/yritys/28160292#taloustiedot
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