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10% discount with Superfast Ferries!
Date: 23 October 2009 Source: Superfast Ferries

Book now for 2010 and get 10% off with Superfast Ferries!

Norfolkline retain 'Best Ferry Company' travel award
Date: 19 October 2009 Source: Directferries.co.uk

For the second year running Norfolkline have won the Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk travel award for "Best ferry company".

Algeciras - Gibraltar ferry link plan
Date: 19 October 2009 Source: Lloyds List

A Spanish company is to launch a ferry service between Gibraltar and Algeciras, the first time in 40 years the cities on either side of the Bay of Gibraltar will be linked by sea.

Open for 2010 bookings!
Date: 18 October 2009 Source: Directferries.co.uk

Most sailings are now available to be booked for 2010.

Strike grounds SeaFrance Calais - Dover services
Date: 16 October 2009 Source: Lloyds List

Seafrance ferry services between Calais and Dover were at a standstill today as seafarers staged a one-day strike in preparation for Monday’s vote of the company’s employee consultative committee on a redundancy plan affecting nearly a third of the 1,600-strong workforce.

Corsica service faces chaos as strike looms
Date: 08 October 2009 Source: Lloyds List

Traffic between mainland France and the island of Corsica is expected to be seriously disrupted from this evening following the decision of several seafarers’ unions to carry out their threat to strike over plans by SNCM and Compagnie Méridionale de Navigation to set up a joint subsidiary to develop new lines in the Mediterranean.

Marseilles ferry strike talks continue
Date: 08 October 2009 Source: Lloyds List

Talks were continuing yesterday in an attempt to head off strike action today by seafarers seafarers at Marseilles-based French Mediterranean ferry operators SNCM and Compagnie Méridionale de Navigation.

Brittany Ferries to lay up Armorique
Date: 07 October 2009 Source: Lloyds List

Brittany Ferries is to take its newest vessel out of service for a time next month to reduce costs on its Roscoff-Plymouth service.

New Portsmouth Cherbourg ferry service!
Date: 01 October 2009 Source: Directferries.co.uk

Celtic Link Ferries have announced the opening of a new year round ferry service between Portsmouth and Cherbourg commencing in October 2009.

Increased demand prompts change to Irish Ferries winter schedule
Date: 01 October 2009 Source: Irish Ferries

Irish Ferries has announced that it will be maintaining its twice-daily Dublin Swift return sailings (crossing time one hour 49 minutes) between Holyhead and Dublin through until 5 January 2010 .

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