This is a list of ferry companies operating out of UK ports. |
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| Brittany Ferries |
08709 076 103  |
Brittany specialise in long sea crossings with routes from Plymouth to Roscoff (Brittany) and Santander (Spain); from Poole to Cherbourg; from Portsmouth to Cherbourg, Caen & St. Malo. There is also a route from Cork (Ireland) to Roscoff. It was originally set up (in 1973) with the support of the Chambers of Commerce in Brittany as a means of getting French farm produce into the UK market. |
| Caledonian MacBrayne |
08705 650000 |
Ferries operating in the Clyde and Hebrides. They sail to twenty-two islands and four peninsulas on Scotland's West Coast. |
| Condor Ferries |
0870 243 5140 |
Condor operate a combination of fast & conventional ferries between the UK mainland, France and the Channel Islands, with routes from Weymouth, Poole and Portsmouth to Cherbourg, St Malo, Guernsey & Jersey. |
| DFDS Seaways |
08702 520 524 |
North Sea ferry company operating ferry crossings and 'mini-cruises' to Norway and Holland from Newcastle, and Denmark from Harwich in Essex. |
| Eurotunnel |
08705 35 35 35 |
Ok, well perhaps not technically a 'ferry company' but a 'short (under) sea crossing operator' at least! We all know where this one comes from and goes to.(No? Folkestone-Calais) |
| Irish Ferries |
08705 17 17 17 |
High-speed and conventional ferry services between Holyhead-Dublin and Pembroke-Rosslare. |
| Isle of Man Steam Packet |
0871 222 1 333 |
Ferries to the Isle of Man from Heysham (Lancs), Liverpool, Belfast, & Dublin. |
| LD Lines |
0825 304 304 |
Daily ferry services from Portsmouth and Newhaven to Le Havre. |
| Norfolkline |
0870 870 10 20 |
Norfolkline claims to be the fastest car ferry service to France from UK, operating between Dover-Dunkerque, which it says is a more convenient ferry route than Dover-Calais. They also operate Irish Sea services from Liverpool to both Dublin & Belfast. |
| Northlink Ferries |
0845 6000 449 |
Ferry services from the NE Scottish mainland to the islands of Orkney and Shetland. They operate three times daily from Scrabster (near Thurso) to Stromness in Orkney and nightly sailings from Aberdeen to Lerwick in Shetland - with four of these sailings going via Orkney's capital, Kirkwall. |
| P&O Ferries |
08705 980 333 |
P&O Ferries operate three country routes: from Portsmouth to Bilbao in Northern Spain, Dover-Calais, and from Hull to Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Zeebrugge (Belgium). |
| P&O Ferries (Irish Sea) |
0870 24 24 777 |
Routes from Liverpool to Dublin, and from Troon & Cairnryan in Scotland to Larne in Northern Ireland. |
| Red Funnel Ferries |
01703 333042 |
Isle of Wight ferries from Southampton. Their conventional ferry carries cars, coaches, freight & passengers between Southampton & East Cowes. The 'Red Jet' Hi-Speed passenger-only service connects Southampton and West Cowes. |
| SeaFrance |
0870 443 1653 |
Main player on the Dover-Calais route. |
| Smyril Line |
n/a |
Single ship (MS Norröna) operating from Scrabster (Scotland) to Bergen (Norway) and to their hub at Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands, from where there are sailings to Lerwick (Shetland) Seydisfjørdur (Iceland) and Hanstholm (Denmark). |
| SpeedFerries |
0870 22 00 570 |
High-speed car & passenger ferry service between Dover-Boulogne. |
| Stena Line |
08705 707070 |
High speed and conventional ferries to Ireland and the Netherlands, with routes from Stranraer to Belfast; Fleetwood to Larne; Holyhead to Dublin and (across the bay) Dun Laoghaire; Fishguard to Rosslare; Harwich to Hoek van Holland and Rotterdam. |
| Superfast Ferries |
0870 234 0870 |
A single ex-UK route from Rosyth in Scotland to Zeebrugge in Belgium. The answer to your next question: 18 hours. |
| Swansea-Cork Ferries |
01792 456116 |
**Suspended Sailings**
SCF say they they were unable to obtain a suitable vessel to operate the route in 2007 but hope to again in 2008. |
| TransEuropa Ferries |
01843 595522 |
Car ferry service between Ramsgate-Ostende. |
| Transmanche Ferries |
0800 917 12 01 |
Car ferry service between Newhaven-Dieppe. |
| Wightlink |
0870 582 0202 |
Isle of Wight car ferry service from Portsmouth to Fishbourne & Lymington to Yarmouth, and a FastCat foot passenger service from Portsmouth to Ryde. |
| A number of ferry operators, like airlines, are increasingly keen to take bookings online rather than by phone and so charge extra fees for telephone bookings. |
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| Research Tips: | * | Ferrybooker.com is an online ferry and cross-Channel booking service enabling reservations with all operators offering UK departures. The site features complete searchable timetables, holiday offers and add-ons including accommodation, insurance, car hire and currency. |
| * | Aferry.to is an online ferry booking system for European ferries services, not just ex-UK but in the Adriatic, Aegean, Baltic, Mediterranean,etc. There are also special offers and 'Ferry + Hotel' packages. It has an extremely simple to use graphical 'point & click' selection process. |
| * | FerryBestPrice.com is a fare-checker site (rather like the low-cost airline farecheckers - see Airline Fare-Checkers) running off the back of their sister brand, AFerry.to (see above). They will also act as booking agents. |
| * | FerrySavers.com offers low-cost ferry fares, travel insurance and special offers on Irish & European routes but not Scandinavia. |
| * | The Passenger Shipping Association has a slightly moribund (news items mostly dated 2001) information website, www.ferry information service.co.uk, giving details of ferry companies, their routes and driving tips for the countries they go to. They also run a marketing website in conjunction with a number of leading ferry operators called SailAndDrive.com |
