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Chunnel a pipe dream
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• When Townsend Thoresen Ferries launched Free Enterprise VI at Schiedam in Holland last week, Mr Harry Smulders, managing director of the shipbuilding company I.ELC., said Europe had been dreaming about a Channel tunnel for a quarter of a century but would go on dreaming about it for as long again. Mr Smulders congratulated TTF on its foresight in continuing to produce roll-on/roll-off ferries to meet the increasing cross-Channel demand.
Free Enterprise VI, providing an extra 1200ft of freight capacity, is the first vessel to be built in a £30m programme and will go into service in June. Its sister ship FE VII is due to be launched in September and come into service early in 1973. The full building programme of five ships will be completed by the end of 1974.
In addition to the six Free Enterprise ships operating out of Dover, the company has five other ferries operating out of Southampton and during 1972 plans a total of 000 sailings.