Ferries

Olympic hopefuls team up with leading ferry company

Ferry company Stena Line has expressed its delight at the announcement that its acquisition of the DFDS routes from Belfast to Liverpool (Birkenhead) and Belfast to Heysham has been fully approved by the Competition Commission.

Customers of Brittany Ferries Freight will greet the 27th February with immense enthusiasm for this is the date that has recently been announced for the return of the ever popular Barfleur into service on its Cherbourg to Poole service.

DFDS Seaways has launched its new, enhanced freight service on the Rosyth-Zeebrugge ferry route. The new schedule, which took effect from 5th January, sees two ships operate on the route providing four departures a week from each port, allowing freight capacity on the service to be significantly improved.

Brittany Ferries Freight has recently announced its new 2011 schedules, which become effective from spring, the major change being the introduction of a twice weekly service from Portsmouth to Bilbao to be operated by the 33,000 tonne vessel Cap Finistère.

Supply chain solutions specialist P&O Ferrymasters has underlined its growth strategy in central Europe with an agreement to carry washing machines and refrigerators from Samsung’s factory in Wronki, Poland, to key destinations in western Europe.

The first ‘Motorways of the Sea’ ferry service between France and Spain will be officially launched on 16th September 2010 at Montoir-de-Bretagne (Nantes-Saint-Nazaire port, France).

DFDS’ acquisition of Norfolkline from A.P. Moller-Maersk has been approved by the European Competition Authorities.

LD Lines has become the first ferry operator between the UK and France to introduce a free iPhone app feature that now enables users to search all sailings, fares offers, product information and make bookings via the website, across the company's cross-Channel route network.