A grim reminder today of the tough life seafarers have. The news that a cargo vessel has sunk in the North Sea with the loss of a number of lives is very sad indeed. Just guys going about their daily job, but sadly involved in a collision with a container ship somewhere off Belgium I believe. The sea is rough out there today...with gales forecast in the English Channel and beyond.
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Here is the P&O Christmas Schedule. If I hear anything from DFDS or MFL will let all know but I suspect they will run a service something along the same lines.
P&O Ferries is offering an amended sailing schedule for the Christmas and New Year period as follows:
Dover - Calais
Reduced service on 24 December (last sailing from Dover at 14.45hrs and from Calais at 17.55hrs)
No service on Christmas Day
Reduced service on 26 December (seven sailings from Dover between 07.35hrs and 23.15hrs, six sailings from Calais between 10.45hrs and 21.45hrs)
Normal service on 31 December and New Year's Day
Hull - Rotterdam
No service on 24 December and Christmas Day
Normal service on 26 December
No service on 30 and 31 December
Normal service on New Year's Day
Hull - Zeebrugge
Normal service on 24 December
No service on Christmas Day and 26 December
No service on 31 December and New Year's Day
Sailing schedules can be checked at
www.POferries.com or by calling 08716 646464.