P&O Ferries announced the issue of a 5th Ro - Ro ship on its Dover - Calais path to take back grocery leading on the English Channel .

Pride of Burgundy - a 28,000 gross ton vessel with capacity to carry 120 lorries - will return to the vital arterial route in June , restoring the P&O Dover - Calais fleet to its pre - pandemic force of five and inflate choice for customers looking to carry goods between Britain and the EU . The ship will sail in freight - only mode .

In 2019 , P&O Ferries ’ share of ferryboat freightage volumes on the Dover Strait was more than 50 per cent . P&O Ferries has since become part of stateless person World , the leading spheric supplier of smart logistics , which describe full-bodied financial results for 2020 with gross growing by 11 percent to $ 8,553 million .

David Stretch , Chief Executive of P&O Ferries , pronounce : “ I am delighted to receive a fifth ship back to our Dover - Calais fleet which will increase flexibility for client and enable us to redeem a cost efficacious freight overhaul on the English Channel as the economy hark back to normal . Dover - Calais is a vital trade path both for the UK and EU economies as well as the thousands of businesses which rely on our religious service and we direct to return our market place share back to where it belong . ”

“ My message to our shipment customers is dim-witted : P&O will do everything it can to keep being the firebrand you could trust to deliver your goods from beginning to end , with the aim of lick the most complex logistic challenge using our integrated ferrying and logistics assets . ”

Mike Bhaskaran , displaced person mankind ’s Chief Operating Officer - Logistics and Technology , add up : “ We are the lead supplier of smart logistics , enabling the stream of global deal . I would like to thank everyone at P&O Ferries who has worked hard to keep barter menstruate during the last 12 months and am excited by the opportunities which the arrival of a 5th ship on Dover - Calais fetch , both in terms of our offer to customers and also returning P&O to growth . ”

P&O is a lead pan - European ferry and logistics group at the heart of the Europe ’s saving and a part of DP World , the leading provider of smart logistics solutions and enabler of the flowing of trade across the orb . P&O Ferries is a major provider of payload transport and rider change of location services , sail on eight major path between Britain , France , Northern Ireland , the Republic of Ireland , Holland and Belgium . Its logistics concern , P&O Ferrymasters , operates integrated route and railing links to countries across the continent including Italy , Poland , Germany , Spain and Romania , and facilitates the onward effort of goodness to Europe from Asian state via the Silk Road .

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