Regardless of the worse-than-expected second coronavirus wave, cruise companies are more optimistic than earlier, and the hope is that, especially during the second half of the year, tourists will start coming back to Tallinn, the state-owned Port of Tallinn (Tallinna Sadam) told ERR.
Some cruise companies have contacted the Port of Tallinn, and, currently, specific terms and safety measures are being negotiated, the authority's communications manager, Sirle Arro, said.
"This is in the hope that the Baltic cruises will restart. The second half of the summer is a more realistic timescale," she said.
If and when will the cruises, with their complement of tourists, start to arrive on the Baltic Sea area and in Tallinn, depends on the infection rate of different states and on decisions on whether the cruise ships can stay moored and on what terms the passengers can come ashore, Arro continued.