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IRISH SEA: Channel veteran goes for scrap

A 50-year career, starting with English Channel service as Townsend Ferries’ first purpose-built car ferry Free Enterprise in April 1962, is ending at Turkish...

PENTLAND FIRTH: Northlink Orkney route disrupted

Passengers and cars may not be carried on Northlink Ferries’ Pentland Firth service between Scrabster and Stromness until late May after the route’s 2002-built...

ENGLISH Channel: TEF Ramsgate sailings halted

Transeuropa Ferries (TEF), established in 1986, ceased sailings between Ramsgate and Ostend on 18 April, with the Slovenian parent’s Belgian operation filing for bankruptcy....

ISLE OF WIGHT: Solent subsidies ruled out

The possibility of government subsidies for ferry services to the Isle of Wight has been ruled out by Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, but there...

IRISH SEA: Cork-Swansea hopes gone

Revival of a ferry link between Ireland and South Wales has been ruled out in the present economic and competitive climate. A report commissioned...

Irish Sea: Clyde repairs for Finnarrow

Finnarrow’s relief stint on the Irish Sea Central Corridor ended abruptly on 19 February when the 1996-built Finnlines ro-ro suffered serious hull damage while...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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