New Ferry Service.

[busby]

Supposedly a new ferry service will be up and running early 2020 linking Cork Plymouth and Vigo in Northern Spain.Brand new ship..May bring Brittany prices down a little.BUSBY.

 

[David and Sally]

Interesting. Thanks

 

[Innkeeper]

Supposedly a new ferry service will be up and running early 2020 linking Cork Plymouth and Vigo in Northern Spain.Brand new ship..May bring Brittany prices down a little.BUSBY.

Have you got a link to the ferry?

 

[David and Sally]

Proyectan que un ferri una Vigo con el Reino Unido e Irlanda el próximo año

Tendrá una capacidad para 150 pasajeros y 200 vehículos y cubrirá la ruta en 28 horas

www.lavozdegalicia.es

 

[busby]

Have you got a link to the ferry?

See someone beat me to it.

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[Lenny HB]

Proyectan que un ferri una Vigo con el Reino Unido e Irlanda el próximo año

Tendrá una capacidad para 150 pasajeros y 200 vehículos y cubrirá la ruta en 28 horas

www.lavozdegalicia.es

Didn't understand a word of it.

 

[Snowbird]

Lets hope its more reliable than the one running out of Cork now.

 

[Portland]

They hope to start this year but for sure next year, @ €350 per round trip for a car. €800 per truck. I assume motorhomes come somewhere betwixt.
We will see.

 

[Jonno1103]

Nope, a few of us ferry bods have been looking into this since the article first reared it's head in the Spanish press a while ago. The business isn't there, certainly not to Vigo or Plymouth and certainly not using a ship sailing in the China sea with no plans to go anywhere else. The vessel named in all the articles , Audacia, hasn't gone by that name for a few years now and certainly isn't owned by Grimaldi or any other Italian shipping company.

The next new Spanish route will be run by Balearia from Gijon to St Nazaire relaunching the old LD Lines connection. New MoS funding, new linkspan and an LNG powered Visentini built RoPax.

 

[Jonno1103]

Proyectan que un ferri una Vigo con el Reino Unido e Irlanda el próximo año

Tendrá una capacidad para 150 pasajeros y 200 vehículos y cubrirá la ruta en 28 horas

www.lavozdegalicia.es

A 200m vessel is too long for the linkspan at Ringaskiddy and the port have no plans to increase the quay length as it would encroach onto the new deep water freight berth being constructed ahead of it as part of the Tivoli expansion. At 187m a Visentini such as Connemara BF currently use or the soon to arrive Kerry replacing her are the longest ships capable of berthing there.

The ship would also need to be capable of travelling well in excess of 30 knots if the plan is to make the crossing between 24-28 hours, not even the Superfasts can do that.

Vigo could work... if they built a terminal, if they built a linkspan, if they could attract 1500+ pax, if they could manage a crossing to Cork in around 35 hours.

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