The main Dover Calais Ferry operators are P and O Ferries and
SeaFrance but with any duopoly there’s always room for a third
contender to sneak in through the crack between them, as indeed did P
& O Ferries themselves do back in the days when the ont Dover Calais
Ferries were either Townsend Thoresen (European Ferries) or Sealink.
For example, ferry operator LD Lines has introduced a ‘best-value
cross-Channel early-booking’ offer from £18 each way via its exclusive
Dover-Boulogne route. The offer is valid for a car and two people.
LD Lines is a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, a major player in
maritime transport with a fleet of over 60 ships operating worldwide.
LD Lines added the popular Dover-Boulogne crossing to their existing
ferry routes in February 2009. This new service operates year round
and there are four crossings each way during the week.
The Norman Spirit operates the route with a crossing time of just
1h45. The Norman Spirit has capacity for 1850 passengers, 700 cars and
110 freight vehicles.
Bolougne is just thirty kilometres from Calais and it’s a much nicer
town to visit for a day trip or indeed to end a motoring holiday in
France. So the Dover Boulogne route is in close competition with the
more numerous Dover Calais ferry fleet.
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