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  Have just added an extra item to the frontpage just in from the Port.
  
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  I thought the likeable Simon Jones did a rather gloomy report on it all last night on BBC South East. He had such a worried look about him that I almost thought he was reporting on a closure of service rather than a new and exciting start up.
  
  It is true there is now suddenly a lot of capacity on the channel. It is also true that it is an unusual time of year for a launch of service, but clearly MFL had to start while the momentum was there. To wait until next Spring would surely have killed the opportunity stone dead, one has to strike while the iron is hot, and not let the grass grow...to use a whole dose of cliches!.
  
  The new service will rely on freight to keep it going through the long winter and it should work out..roomy comfortable ships are the order of the day here and it should go down well with the commercial guys.
  
  I was a regular user of Seafrance and always liked it. Since then I have been many times on the new P&O spirit ships. Huge capacity and they certainly can carry quite a load, they pack 'em in, loads and loads of car decks and only one deck for passengers to linger on, as far as I can tell. You are hard pressed to get a seat at all times..and Ive found that on several occasions both on day trips and short holidays. It is just the design of the ship itself. Optimised to carry max cars.
  
  Overcrowded??..well possibly not, but there is a general feeling that current services are overstretched a mite.
  
  However I will say they are super efficient. How they cope with such volume and keep it all flowing freely is an amazement in itself. Not just P&O but the Port itself.

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