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,...
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.
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