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She was built at Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany and has been sailing for Brittany Ferries since March 2004. She is the current and longest serving Brittany Ferries flagship; sailing between the UK, France, Spain and Ireland. Pont Aven is the fastest and largest purpose-built cruise-ferry on the English Channel.
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.
During the charter to Brittany Ferries, Baie de Seine operated between Portsmouth and Le Havre, whilst also operating some services between Portsmouth and Spain (Bilbao and Santander). In 2017, Brittany Ferries announced that Baie de Seine would return to DFDS Seaways in 2020 and would be replaced by a new vessel ordered from China, to be named ...
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 ...
MV Etretat seen in Portsmouth. From 11 March 2014, Norman Voyager was chartered to Brittany Ferries, renamed Étretat (for a town in Normandy) and branded for their "économie" service. She continued to serve Portsmouth to Le Havre on Tuesday to Friday. She also ran a weekly return crossing from Portsmouth to Santander on Saturday/Sunday.
Portsmouth investigated three locations for a ferry port at the end of the 1960s, before the current location was chosen. The choice was based on cost and the likely benefit of cross-channel ferries. The site was at the end of the newly constructed M275 .
Cotentin is a ROPAX ferry owned and operated by Brittany Ferries between Poole and Cherbourg from January until March 2021 and then Portsmouth and Le Havre from March 2021 until June 2021. She previously operated for Brittany Ferries between 2007 and 2013 between Poole–Cherbourg before being chartered to Stena Line as Stena Baltica serving ...
Currently serving Portsmouth - Santander and Cherbourg, transferring to Ireland-based routes once replaced by Santoña. Pont-Aven: 184.6 m (606 ft) 41,758 2,400 27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) 2004 Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany: Brittany Ferries France: Santander - Plymouth - Roscoff - Cork; Portsmouth - St. Malo (winter only) Stena Estrid: 214.5 m