Helsinki was one of the busiest cruise destinations in the Baltic Sea again this summer. There were over 260,000 passengers, representing a total of 142 countries, on 237 ship calls, and we are expecting one more call on New Year's Eve, bringing the total calls to 238. Ships numbered 61, the smallest with some 100 passengers and the largest with more than 3,000 passengers. North-America accounted for the largest number of passengers, though the number of Europeans in-creased considerably. Cruise Ships