Cross Channel problems

Readers should be aware that there have been problems with the Cross Channel ferries and should be careful when making a booking.  SeaFrance is not operating.

France’s Transport Minister, officials from SNCF and the Nord Pas de Calais regional council and the CFDT staff union met in Paris last Friday to discuss the takeover bid for SeaFrance by a co-operative of its workers.  Currently the operator is in liquidation and the four ships on its Cross Channel operation laid up.

In the meantime P&O Ferries has introduced more capacity to its Dover – Calais service.  European Seaway has joined the company’s Dover fleet, meaning that P&O Ferries now has six ships sailing between Dover and Calais which between them can make up to 60 crossings a day.

The company says that it has ample capacity to repatriate all tourist and freight customers displaced by disruption to SeaFrance services and to meet demand over the festive season. 

“This is the off-season and we have cranked up to the sort of level we operate at in the peak tourist season, so we can reassure anybody who wishes to travel on the Dover – Calais route that capacity is not an issue,” explained a company spokesman. www.poferries.com www.seafrance.com

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