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Cotentin is a ROPAX ferry that is 167 m (547 ft 11 in) long overall with a beam of 26.8 m (87 ft 11 in) and a draught of 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in). The vessel has a 22,308 gross tonnage (GT), a 6,692 net tonnage (NT) and measures 6,200 tons deadweight (DWT).
The charter is expected to run for 10 years with the option to purchase after 4 years. [10] On 8 August 2024, Brittany Ferries announced its intention to become the majority stakeholder of Condor Ferries, pending approval of regulators in Jersey and Guernsey. [11] The company received regulatory approval for the move in September 2024. [12]
MV Armorique is a passenger and freight ferry built for Brittany Ferries by STX Europe in Finland at a cost of £81 million (€110 million). [2] [3] [4] The vessel was delivered to Brittany Ferries on 26 January 2009, [5] it was originally planned for her to be delivered in September 2008. Armorique is named after a national park in western ...
A model of the Pont-Aven as built.. Pont-Aven was ordered by Brittany Ferries from the Meyer Werft shipyard on the river Ems, gt Papenburg, Germany on 22 February 2002.She was laid down on 9 April 2003, [4] launched 13 September the same year and completed on 7 February 2004, ahead of schedule.
The new vessel, Honfleur, would result in a fleet movement with Normandie assigned to the Portsmouth-Le Havre service from late 2019. In June 2020 Brittany Ferries announced the cancellation of the Honfleur contract with the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft shipyard in Germany meaning Normandie will remain in the Portsmouth-Caen route.
In February 2006 the Val de Loire ended her service with Brittany Ferries and was renamed MS King of Scandinavia (she is the third ship of the same name to sail with DFDS Seaways). Between 2 and 11 March she was refitted for her new service in IJmuiden , the Netherlands , and on 11 March she began serving on DFDS Seaways' Newcastle - IJmuiden ...
On 1 January 2015, the EU (including the North Sea, English Channel, Eastern side of the Western Channel and Baltic Sea) had a sulphur in marine fuel cut from the allowance in 2014 of 1% to 0.1% of sulphur allowed, Brittany Ferries then abundantly announced in January 2014 that they were going to fit scrubbers to a number of elder vessels, convert newer vessels to LNG and construct a new LNG ...
Brittany Ferries took delivery of Salamanca in 2022, followed by Santoña in 2023. [14] [20] On 20 July 2021, Brittany Ferries announced that 2 more E-Flexer ships are due to enter service between 2024 and 2025, replacing Bretagne and Normandie.