St. Peter Line

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{{Infobox company

| name = St. Peter Line

| owner = Moby SPL Limited

| logo = St. Peter Line logo

| type = Private

| foundation = 2010
2016 as Moby SPL Limited

| hq_location_city = Valletta

| hq_location_country = Malta

| industry = Water transport

| areas_served = Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Russia

| services = Ferries
Port services
Passenger transportation
Freight transportation

| passengers =

| vehicles =

| freight units =

| homepage = {{URL|https://stpeterline.com/en}}

}}

File:St peter line route map.svg

St. Peter Line is a water transport company owned by Moby SPL Limited, a Maltese-registered shipping company,{{cite web |title=Contact Information of the Controller |url=https://stpeterline.com/en/politika-obrabotki-personal-nyh-dannyh |publisher=St. Peter Line |accessdate=3 May 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Bottino |first1=Francesco |title=Moby will be headquartered in Malta to operate in Russia |url=http://www.ship2shore.it/en/shipping/moby-will-be-headquartered-in-malta-to-operate-in-russia_63216.htm |accessdate=3 May 2020 |publisher=Ship2Shore |date=19 December 2016}} 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{{cite web|author=|publisher=Irish Continental Group|year=|accessdate=3 December 2010|title=Statement re sale of the ferry Bilbao|url=http://www.icg.ie/documents/2010/2010-12-03-Statement-re-Charter-of-Bilbao.pdf}} 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 In 2022 the ship was withdrawn because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, transferred to Moby Lines and sailed to Messina for refurbishment.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.{{Cite web|url=https://stpeterline.com/en/company-news|title=News - MOBY SPL}} No information about opening up St. Peter Line again has been announced.

Routes

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

class="wikitable"
scope="col" width="160"| Route

! scope="col" width="125"| Frequency

! scope="col" width="100"| Crossing time

HelsinkiSt. PetersburgHelsinki2 crossings per week14 hours
Stockholm – (Helsinki) – St Petersburg – (Tallinn) – Stockholm1 crossing per week38 hours

Fleet

= Former vessels =

class="wikitable"

! Ship

BuiltIn serviceTonnage1Status as of 2021
SPL Princess Anastasia1986align="Center" | 2011-2022align="Center" | {{GT|37,799}}Now MS Moby Orli with Moby Lines
MS Princess Mariaalign="Center" | 1981align="Center" | 2010–2016align="Center" | {{GT|25,905}}Scrapped in 2025.

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