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Brittany Ferries has completed its largest-ever fleet renewal programme - five ships in five years – with the arrival of its second hybrid ship.
Guillaume de Normandie is due to make her first commercial voyage on 18 April 2025 and will serve the company’s busiest Portsmouth to Caen (Ouistreham) route, which carries more than half of all freight traffic as well as around a million passengers a year.
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Brittany Ferries new LNG-electric hybrid ship Saint-Malo called at Portsmouth for the first time, arriving and departing on pure battery power.
The ship’s first commercial voyage to St Malo will take place on 12 February – the first call was to carry out ramp trials in Portsmouth International Port and other ...
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Brittany Ferries’ LNG-electric hybrid vessel Saint-Malo is carrying out sea trials in the Far East, ahead of her transit to Europe in November. From February next year she will link Portsmouth with her namesake port, operating on liquefied natural gas (LNG) at sea and on electric power when manoeuvring and ...
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Energy company Repsol has started supplying liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) to Brittany Ferries’ LNG-fuelled vessels Salamanca and Santoña at the LNG-bunkering terminal in Santander (Spain).
The three truck-loads, totalling 60 tons was the first supply of its kind in Spain.
BioLNG can reduce the CO2 emissions by up to 100% compared to conventional LNG, depending on ...
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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 ...
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Brittany Ferries has gone into partnership with Wärtsilä and Incat to explore design and technical requirements for a 137m zero-emissions craft. It brings together marine partners with expertise in the design and construction of fast craft, the engineering and technical needs and fleet operating experience.
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Brittany Ferries has added a third weekly return-sailing between Cherbourg and Rosslare. The company says the move will boost connectivity ahead of the arrival of its rail-ferry service in 2025 whereby Ferroutage will link Bayonne with Cherbourg by rail, carrying trailers for onward transport by ferry.
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Brittany Ferries saw “a worrying decline” in freight volumes in the summer (June to September) season, although passenger figures were encouraging.
Chief executive Christophe Mathieu said that while the majority of freight is carried outside the summer months, the trend reflected an overall decline in volume, adding: “This is particularly worrying ...
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Portsmouth International Port is to start work on a shore power system at its three busiest berths following a £19.8m award from the Government’s Zero Emissions Vessels and Infrastructure competition, funded by UK Government and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.
The port will embark on the Sea Change project with ...
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Brittany Ferries' chief executive Christophe Mathieu, and president Jean-Marc Roué signed a voluntary charter to protect the rights of seafarers on the English Channel on 24 July. The ceremony was hosted by French shipping minister Hervé Berville, and UK maritime minister, Baroness Vere.The charters are a complement to laws mandating ...
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