UK Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan announced that the Port of Dover has been successful in its bid to fund the Green Corridor Short Straits (GCSS) consortium’s feasibility study to establish a zero-carbon trade route, a partnership which also includes French sister ports, Calais and...
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Peel Ports Group has welcomed the return of the DFDS service to Sheerness, with the DFDS-owned vessel, the M/V Botnia Seaways, arriving at London Medway from Calais as part of the dedicated unaccompanied freight service between the UK and France.
With a carrying capacity of 11,530 gross tonnage, the M/V Botnia Seaways measures 162 meters in length, with a width of 21 meters and will be the new dedicated vessel for this route.
Operating a daily service via the English Channel,...
Irish Ferries will introduce a second Ro-Pax vessel on its Dover to Calais route in the first week of December 2021, doubling the current capacity on the route. The vesse ..
DFDS has begun operating Cote d’Opale, its newest Ro-Pax ferry, on the English Channel between Dover and Calais. Delivered in June, the newbuild replaces Calais Sea ..
DFDS recently took delivery of a newbuild Ro-Pax ferry from China Merchants Jinling Shipyard Weihai. Cote d’Opale is one of five E-Flexer-class ferries ordered by S ..
DFDS is set to inject further capacity into UK-continental Europe supply chains on 1 June, when its launches an unaccompanied ro-ro service between the port of Sheerness, on the juncture of the Thames and Medway rivers, and Calais.
The daily service, one sailing in each direction, will be operated by DFDS’s ro-pax vessel, Gothia Seaways (pictured above), which has capacity for 165 unaccompanied units and is currently deployed on the Baltic Sea.
Wayne Bullen, …
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RMT statement on Irish Ferries commencing services on the Dover to Calais route
Maritime Union RMT has raised serious concerns over today’s announcement that Irish Ferries will commence a service on the Dover – Calais route. Irish Ferries is a well known operator with a proven reputation for exploiting overseas Seafarers.
RMT has today written to Irish Ferries seeking a meeting to outline the unions concerns surrounding employment practices and the threat that this development poses to...
European ports and the operator of the Channel Tunnel say they are increasingly concerned about the efforts of government and the wider supply chain to prepare for Brexit.
Manager of external affairs at the port of Rotterdam Mark Djik told a UK parliamentary select committee that, while he was confident the Dutch gateway would be ready for the end of the Brexit transition next month, he was concerned by the efforts …
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https://theloadstar.com/european-ports-and-eurotunnel-were-ready-for-brexit-is-the-supply-chain/
Predictions of miles of truck queues in the approaches to Dover after a hard Brexit are numerous, but a new report from Drewry Maritime Advisors claims the UK ro-ro gateway has considerable spare capacity.
The report calculated the port capacity of Dover, with current and predicted customs capacity and the vessel capacity of the two ro-ro operators, DFDS and P&O Ferries, and concludes that operations at the port could continue relatively …
The UK transport minister Chris Grayling, is staying in the headlines. Amidst claims that he broke the law, he’s now been told to steer clear of Calais – well, the port at least. The Guardian reports that the minister has been told he is “no longer welcome” at the port of Calais by its chairman...
https://theloadstar.co.uk/grayling-not-welcome-in-calais-says-port-chairman/