P&O Ferries has signed a contract with Guangzhou Shipyard worth €260 million to deliver a new generation of ships on the English Channel Two new 230 metre ferries - the largest to sail between Dover and Calais - will be operational by 2023, with options to build two further vessels by … [Read more...]
New Calais to Tilbury service for P&O Ferries
P&O FERRIES will strengthen its position as the leading enabler of trade flows across the English Channel by launching a new daily ferry service linking Calais with the Port of Tilbury. The new route launches this month and is designed to give freight which is not accompanied by a driver a … [Read more...]
P&O Tilbury–Zeebrugge Ferries report highest ever freight volumes
P&O Ferries today reports that it carried more freight between Zeebrugge and Tilbury in 2017 than in any other year in the decade long history of the route. The integrated ferry and logistics company carried 185,908 freight units between January and December - an increase of 4.3 per cent on … [Read more...]
Local apprentices win places on P&O Ferries apprenticeships scheme
Ten local apprentices - including the first ever female apprentices - started work at P&O Ferries this month as they began a two-year course which will lead to them becoming fully qualified seafarers aboard 47,000 ton ships on the English Channel. The ten - who are aged between 18 and 29 - … [Read more...]
P&O Gothenburg to Zeebrugge doubles freight volumes
P&O Ferries today reports that the number of freight units shipped between Gothenburg and Britain via its new link to the Scandinavian port has almost doubled compared with 2015. The ferry and logistics company launched an innovative partnership with Swedish Orient Line … [Read more...]
Major upgrade for the port of Cairnryan
Work has commenced this week on a major construction project to provide the P&O Ferries Division-owned Port of Cairnryan with new facilities to support its ferry operations on the Irish Sea. Civil engineering contractors McLaughlin & Harvey have been appointed to provide a new … [Read more...]
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