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P&O's Portsmouth operations began with their acquisition of Normandy Ferries' Portsmouth-Le Havre route, branding it as P&O Normandy Ferries and offering a twice-daily service, initially competing with both Brittany Ferries and Townsend Thoresen. In 1985, P&O sold its ferry operations to European Ferries before returning to the market in 1987 ...
Cap Finistère ran between Portsmouth and Santander twice a week and also operated three round trips a week between Portsmouth and Cherbourg. In September 2010, Brittany Ferries announced plans to serve the Portsmouth–Bilbao route recently abandoned by P&O Ferries. [3] The route started on 27 March 2011.
LD Lines' English Channel operations commenced in October 2005, operating between Portsmouth, England and Le Havre, France. This service was introduced following the withdrawal of P&O Ferries' long-standing operation on this route. Initially there was one sailing per day in each direction, with the Portsmouth–Le Havre sailing taking place ...
P&O Portsmouth was run until 2002, when it was then renamed P&O Ferries and brought under the same management and ownership as P&O on the English Channel which occurred after P&O bought Stena Line 40% share in P&O Stena Line. The operations from Portsmouth remained largely unchanged except from a simple livery change during the 2002-2003 round ...
[14] [18] [19] She operates out of Portsmouth, England, to Santander, Spain and Cherbourg, France. [14] 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.
Ferries usually originate from one of the following: Dover with services to Calais operated by P&O Ferries, My Ferry Link and DFDS Seaways. Portsmouth International Port is the main hub for longer services on the Western Channel to Ouistreham, Le Havre, Cherbourg and Saint Malo in France, and Santander and Bilbao in Spain.
Brittany Ferries France: Portsmouth - Santander; Portsmouth - Cherbourg Fuel: Liquefied natural gas (LNG). Entry into service March 2023. Salamanca: 214.5 m (703.7 ft) 41,863 1,015 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) 2021 China Merchants Jinling Shipyard(Weihai) Co., Ltd: Brittany Ferries France: Portsmouth - Bilbao; Portsmouth - Cherbourg
In 1998 P&O European Ferries (Irish Sea) Ltd was formed by the internal merger of Pandoro Ltd. and P&O European (Felixstowe) Ltd., to run the Irish Sea routes. In 1987, P&O took over the European Ferries Group Plc —to which it had previously sold its cross channel ferry services in 1985—which traded as Townsend Thoresen , and renamed the ...