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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.
P&O began ferry operations in Southampton in 1967 with a route to Le Havre in France in a joint venture with SAGA under the Normandy Ferries brand, later rebranded as P&O Ferries. The MV Dragon , owned by P&O, was registered in Southampton whereas her identical sister, MV Leopard , flew the French flag and was registered in Le Havre.
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. On 21 September 2012, Brittany Ferries cancelled sailings indefinitely following two days of wildcat strikes caused by crew members who were unhappy with changes in working terms ...
Baltic Ferry E (1987–1992) 1987 2001 18,732 Felixstowe-Zeebrugge Rosslare-Cherbourg Sold to Celtic Link Ferries: 7528659 Pride of Flanders (1992–2002) Nordic Ferry E (1980–1992) 1987 2002 18,732 688 (1980–1995) 144 (1995–2002) Felixstowe-Zeebrugge Felixstowe-Rotterdam Sold to Stena Line: 7528568 Global Freighter: Returned to owner ...
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 ...
After the rebuild was completed in June 1993, the ship entered service on Brittany Ferries' Plymouth–Santander route, as well as Plymouth–Roscoff and Cork–Roscoff. In 2004 the new MV Pont-Aven replaced the Val de Loire on her old routes, and she was transferred to serve on the Portsmouth–St Malo and Portsmouth–Cherbourg routes .
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