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Brittany Ferries unveils 2025 plans
[ July 29, 2024 // Chris Lewis ]Brittany Ferries will operate up to 98 weekly cross-Channel sailings linking Portsmouth, Poole and Plymouth with St Malo, Roscoff Caen, Cherbourg and Le Havre in its 2025 timetable, published on 29 July.
It will also offer up to 12 weekly overnight sailings between Portsmouth and Plymouth to Santander and Bilbao in northern Spain.
On the first day of bookings the company saw a surge of interest, with nearly 7,000
The first of the two new sister cruise ferries, the Saint-Malo will enter service on 12 February, replaciong the Bretagne on the Portsmouth to St Malo route. The Guillaume de Normandie will join the Portsmouth to Caen route on 18April 2025, replacing long-serving workhorse Normandie and will operate the route in tandem with fleet mate Mont St Michel.
Saint-Malo and Guillaume de Normandie will be the first ferries on the English Channel to be powered by hybrid-Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-electric propulsion, equipped with the largest batteries of any ferry in the world.
Additionally, when alongside they will be capable of plugging into shore-based power supplies, where port infrastructure allows. Their home port of Portsmouth will be the first Channel ferry port to offer this capability from spring 2025, as part of Portsmouth International Port’s ‘Sea Change’ project.
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