Kihnu Veeteed
Lifeline sailings to Kihnu and Manija, ticketed offline when the link drops — residents, vehicles and freight year-round.
All cases
BORA Systems is a ferry operations platform built in Tallinn, Estonia — 33 modules across 6 functional categories, each on its own microservice with a local API. Certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and GDPR-compliant. As of 2026, in daily service across three regions: the Baltic, the Channel Islands and the Persian Gulf.
What is the route?
Kihnu Veeteed serves the islands of Kihnu and Manija year-round, carrying residents, vehicles and freight on lifeline sailings. It runs 14 scheduled sailings a day on 5 routes and carries more than 400,000 passengers a year.
Connectivity to a small island is not guaranteed, so boarding is ticketed offline and reconciled when the link returns.
What runs on BORA here?
Kihnu Veeteed runs on BORA Systems: booking and sales across the passenger website, the agency interface and onboard, boarding validated at the ramp by Access control, and revenue drawn straight from live operations by Reporting — every channel writing into one shared ledger.
Boarding is validated on handheld devices that stay fully functional offline and reconcile when the link returns, so a lifeline crossing is not blocked by a dropped connection. Access control is built to the ISPS Code — adopted by the IMO in 2002 and in force since 2004 — so the departure manifest meets the security obligations a passenger vessel carries.
Further reading on the BORA blog: Why boarding validation has to work offline and What a lifeline ferry route needs from its booking system.
In numbers
scheduled sailings
routes in daily service
passengers a year
Frequently asked questions
Where does Kihnu Veeteed operate?
Kihnu Veeteed operates in the Baltic, running year-round lifeline sailings to the Estonian islands of Kihnu and Manija for residents, vehicles and freight. On BORA Systems it runs 14 scheduled sailings a day on 5 routes and carries more than 400,000 passengers a year.
Does boarding keep working when the connection drops?
Yes. Kihnu Veeteed's boarding is validated on BORA handheld devices at the ramp that stay fully functional offline and reconcile once the link returns, because connectivity to a small island like Kihnu is not guaranteed.
See how Kihnu Veeteed runs on BORA
A 30-minute walkthrough on live data, from a web booking to the ramp closing.
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