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 P and O - Bromptonaut
>> Basically, the situation appears to be the same re the Channel Ferries, there is over-capacity
>> and the only way for all to survive is for one or more operators to
>> close, sadly.

I think there's always been over capacity, certainly so as soon as a third operator gets involved.

When I first crossed Dover/Folkestone to Calais/Boulogne as the short sea crossings were then aged 13 in 1973 Sealink and Townsend Thoresen had a duopoly. Later in the seventies Normandy Ferries, possibly already a P&O subsidiary joined in and then dropped out again when the going got tough in the early eighties recession.

P&O bought out Townsend Thoresen in the late eighties and Sealink became Stena Line eventually merging with P&O. Sea France and later Norfolk Line appeared on the scene. Sea France, government support notwithstanding, was squeezed out. It begat My Ferry Link which again failed and was taken over by Norfolk Line's successor DFDS.

For a while we had a DFDS/P&O duopoly.

In the last couple of years Irish Ferries, who reportedly already crew their ships in the agency/foreign model now adopted by P&O, have moved in.

I'd imagine DFDS, with vessels registered mostly in France and presumably EU level staffing costs, will now come under pressure.
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