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It Pays to Install Green Technology – DFDS Director

3rd March 2016
Côte Des Flandres, DFDS newest addition to the premier Dover-Calais service Côte Des Flandres, DFDS newest addition to the premier Dover-Calais service Credit: DFDS /Cruise & Ferry Net

#GreenTechology - At the annual European Marine Engineering Conference next month the event will climax with The Doug Woodyard Memorial Debate.

Poul Woodall, director, environment and sustainability, DFDS will be speaking against the motion: This conference believes it does not pay to install green technologies.

Danish ferry operator DFDS (including Dover-Calais) is the world champion in marine scrubbers, believes its director for sustainability and development Poul Woodall. 

To read more, Passenger Ship Technology has more here.

Afloat adds that DFDS have recently added Côte Des Flandres the second of a pair of former MyFerryLink ferries (sold by Eurotunnel) onto the Dover-Calais route last month. The refurbished 1,500 passenger/400 car capacity ferry complete with new livery, joins Côte des Dunes, which too entered service last month following a similar refit.

The additional capacity brings to three DFDS ferries, the Calais Seaways which had been accompanied by Malo Seaways. The former Irish Sea ferry Stena Nordica was replaced almost year ago by Dublin-Holyhead newcomer Stena Superfast X. She was on charter from Stena to DFDS serving the route as the Dieppe Seaways. 

 

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Jehan Ashmore

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Jehan Ashmore is a marine correspondent, researcher and photographer, specialising in Irish ports, shipping and the ferry sector serving the UK and directly to mainland Europe. Jehan also occasionally writes a column, 'Maritime' Dalkey for the (Dalkey Community Council Newsletter) in addition to contributing to UK marine periodicals. 

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