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Brittany Ferries is the trading name of the French shipping company, BAI Bretagne Angleterre Irlande S.A. founded in 1973 by Alexis Gourvennec, that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between France, England, Ireland, and Spain.
On 16 March 2009, Brittany Ferries announced it had also made an offer for SeaFrance. The Brittany Ferries offer involved the creation of a new holding company in which Brittany Ferries would have a 75% stake with the remainder being owned by SNCF. [7] In September 2010 the CFDT union rejected a plan for 400 redundancies as part of ...
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MS Barfleur is a ferry operated by Brittany Ferries on the route between Poole on the south coast of England and Cherbourg, France. She was built at Masa Yards Turku New Shipyard in Finland for the Brittany Ferries subsidiary Truckline and entered service in 1992. In 1999 she was repainted in Brittany Ferries standard livery.
Brittany Ferries also operate from Rosslare to Bilbao in Spain. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] DFDS operates a freight-only service from Rosslare to Dunkirk with six sailings a week in each direction, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] On 4 March 2021, DFDS announced that the Dunkirk-Rosslare freight-only service would be increased to eight times a week from 1 April 2021.
Brittany Ferries' second and third (Salamanca and Santoña) ships will be modified to be capable of running on LNG from delivery, [20] though both will have reduced freight capacity as a result of the space occupied by their LNG tanks. [21] All of the E-Flexer ships ordered to date will be ice-classed, either to 1A or 1C requirements. [21]
The plans came under scrutiny of the relevant competition regulators, and as a result Brittany Ferries decided not to charter the ships. [12] They remained in P&O Ferries service until 30 September 2005, when they were withdrawn from service and subsequently laid up on the River Fal [ 2 ] as this proved to be more cost effective than continuing ...
In late 2016, Brittany Ferries signed a letter of intent with Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft for a new cruise ferry between Portsmouth-Caen to be delivered in 2019. The new vessel, Honfleur , would result in a fleet movement with Normandie assigned to the Portsmouth-Le Havre service from late 2019.