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30th September 2019

P&O Ferries Order Biggest Ships to Sail Dover-Calais After Deal With Chinese Shipyard

Giant carbon neutral ferries will take to the sea (Dover-Calais) in four years after P&O signed a €260 million (£229m) contract with a Chinese shipyard. Above AFLOAT adds ferries including on right a 'Darwin' class, one of five existing P&O ships that serves the UK / Europe's busiest ferryport.

A pair of 230m ferries will be the largest to ever to sail between Dover and Calais (see: Brexit related story), with room for 1,500 passengers and deck spaces three-quarters the size of London's Trafalgar Square, writes KentOnline.

The contract also gives the company, P&O Ferries the chance to build another two by 2024.

The new ships, operating by 2023, are designed to help the environment by cutting fuel use and producing no carbon emissions.

They even have two bridges so they don't need to be turned around in the harbour.

This move follows the company signing the multi-million pound contract with Chinese-based Guangzhou Shipyard International Ltd.

For more on this development from P&O Ferries which Afloat adds is a subsidiary of Dubai based company DP World click here.

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