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New cross-channel ferry to Ostend

Anther option for getting across the Channel launches on 15 March 2010 when LD Lines links Ramsgate in Kent with Ostend in Belgium.
LD Lines’ tourist fares on the Ramsgate – Ostend service will be available for cars and passengers, cars and caravans, motorhomes, motorcycles and for added on board passenger comfort facilities include cabins and

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P&O to cease ferry route to Bilbao

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P&O Ferries has announced that it is to discontinue its Portsmouth to Bilbao route from after 27 September 2010.
The Spanish terminal is at Santurtzi about 10 miles from the city on the edge of the Basque country. For francophiles the advantage is that Bilbao is less than 2 hours from the French border and

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Dunkerque Carnival 2010

[ January 23, 2010 to March 3, 2010. ] Dunkerque (62 Pas de Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais) manages to brighten up the miserable nothern French winter with its annual Carnival from 23 January to 6 March 2010
The most famous, the nosiest, the most mental, but also the oldest, is the Dunkerque Carnival. For weeks on end, groups called fisherbands take the measure of each other, confront

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Early booking ferry offers

January is the time to take advantage of early booking offers for summer cross-Channel ferry crossings – Prices will undoubtedly rise in the Spring – but there will be some uncertainty about prices nearer the time – much will depend on demand and capacity plus issues such as the sterling exchange rate and/or fuel surcharges.

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Nothing left for Speedferries Customers

When the Channel Ferry operator Speedferries collapsed last year many people were caught with pre-paid tickets and vouchers which could not be honoured.
;Now the Administrators Ernst & Young are reporting that the proceeds of the sale of assets (including SpeedOne) will not even raise enough money to pay off the Bank who are secured creditors;

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All change at Boulogne

LD Lines Ferries are changing over to a traditional ferry on their Dover-Boulogne cross-channel route which will increase capacity and competition on the short-sea crossings from Dover. Also there is now a new Ferry port at Boulogne which will hopefully be less down-at-heel than the previous landing point. The new terminal is called the Boulogne

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