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IE MOST imaginative delopment on the roll-on/roll-off ry scene since our 1980 guide is published is the launching a through package deal for :/Greece.
The new service is operated, conjunction with Sealink, by rageorgis Lines (UK) Ltd, 36 ig Street, Covent Garden, ndon, WC2 8JS.
The through service is offered means of Sealink, which has 50 ships operating from Dover, Folkestone, Newhaven, Fishguard and Holyhead. Sealink has two new flagships, the St Anselm and the St Christopher, which sail the Dover/Calais route in 90 minutes with 62 hgv plus 1,000 passengers and cars. Trade between Britain and Greece is always likely to remain relatively minor but may build up now that Greece is in the EEC. However, for the present at any rate CM's annual Ferry Guide is confined to details of ro-ro services from the UK and including our offshore islands. In the present economic climate the number of ferry services has not grown, but a glance at the guide illustrates just what a large choice is offered to hauliers. And Olau Line has a new flagship — the E23m 0/au Hollandia, operating out of Sheerness, on a route started only six years ago to Vlissingen. The new ship is the biggest roro ferry on the Channel — a cruise liner among ferries and every cabin, not just first class, has a shower and WC. Brittany Ferries have a new ship this summer on the Plymouth-Roscoff route — it's the 11,500 ton Tegor with a speed of 21 knots and the usual tourist comforts. At the end of the summer it moves to the Plymouth!Santander run. And last summer another new ferry, the Goelo, about half the Tregor's size but capable of the same speed, was put on the line's Portsmouth/St Maio route. Moving north, to Hull, North Sea Ferries are expecting to attract more trade to their "jumbo ferries" operating to Rotterdam (Europoort) or Zeebrugge now that the Humber bridge makes the route easier for some hauliers. As with most ferries, many tourists use this line, and there's colour TV provided plus games of chance — Joker Seven, Roulette and Blackjack. Only in the South do drivers have the choice of a freight-only line — it's operated by Truckline at Poole/Cherbourg and is also used by some operators hauling freight to Spain. Its two custombuilt vehicles have a bow loading ramp of 3.5 metres width and a stern one of 7 metres. And there is 80,000 cubic metres of parking and stacking areas Poole and Cherbourg for lorri containers and kangar trailers. However, Dover remai Britain's premier ro-ro port vs services to Boulogne, Calk Dunkirk, Ostend and Zeebrug The latter, served by TownsE Thoresen, is undertaking one the largest dredging operator: Europe. Dover, of course, I made vast improvements E now has ten drive-on/driveferry births. Will a Channel rl nel be built? There may be m, news towards the end of t year. Ro-ro freight, while still be five per cent down for the yea Dover, increased by nearly c per cent in June. This is mai due to a flurry of activity fr manufacturers prior to the SL mer holiday period. The reduction in the num of freight lorries has led to a crease in the unmber of shipp services from Dover, which down by 5.8 per cent for the f six months of the year, s. Dover Harbour Board. But number of coaches using Do continues to increase rapidly.