St. Peter Line

St. Peter Line
Company type	Private
Industry	Water transport
Founded	2010; 2016 as Moby SPL Limited
Headquarters	Valletta, Malta
Areas served	Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Russia
Services	Ferries; Port services; Passenger transportation; Freight transportation
Owner	Moby SPL Limited
Website	stpeterline.com/en

St. Peter Line is water transport company owned by Moby SPL Limited, a Maltese-registered shipping company,^[1]^[2] 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^[3] 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 In 2022 the ship was withdrawn because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, transferred to Moby Lines and sailed to Messina for refurbishment.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] No information about opening up St. Peter Line again has been announced.

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	Now MS Moby Dada with Moby Lines