Shortsea & Ferry

P& O Ferries has signed a € 360m contract with Aker Yards for the two largest ferries ever to be constructed for the Dover-Calais service.

PD Ports has launched Logical Link, a UK coastal feeder container shipping service offering a next day connection between Felixstowe and Teesport.

The first two new Wight Class ferry designs went into service last month. The two flat bottomed Ro-Ro vessels, Wight Light and Wight Sky are part of a £ 26m investment programme…

A new ferry and freight service has taken over the Dover-Boulogne route six months earlier than planned.

Dales Marine Services has successfully completed a £ 300,000 contract at its Aberdeen facility for general annual maintenance and other work on the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry, Lord of the Isles, which operates…

Seatruck Ferries Ltd and Federicia Shipping have announced the a new ro-ro trailer cargo service to be called Fredericia-Moss, which will run   between Fredericia in Denmark and Moss in Norway. The…

An invitation to break with maritime tradition is being offered in the form of a pilot study by Dutch firms Wagenborg Shipping, Flinter Management and Amasus Shipping.

A gruelling five hour journey to the mainland from the Scottish island of Jura has been shrunk to a mere 45 minute hop to a local bus service by a new ferry…

Seatruck Ferries,freight only specialists on the Irish Sea route, are about to introduce a majorincrease in capacity for the link between Heysham and Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. Seatruck is part of the majorshipping…

The first ferry ticket agency in the UK to address the environmentalissues associated with travel by sea has launched a website at which customershave the opportunity to offset carbon emissions during the…