The board of Viking Line, the listed Finnish cruise ferry company, has decided to postpone this year’s AGM and to proposes to the meeting that no dividend be paid for 2019, the company said in a statement.

The date of the AGM would be decided later. Both the postponement of the meeting and the planned suspension of dividend payments result from the coronavirus outbreak.

The company has suspended its passenger business, but vessels continue to operate between Turku and Mariehamn in Finland and Stockholm in Sweden to carry cargo.

Viking Line had said before that the outbreak has significantly weakened the outlook for this year, but that it would not be possible to present any estimates at this point.

Viking Line has no connection to Viking, the privately owned deep sea and ocean cruise operator.