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Jack Silver - BBC News, Channel Islands November 27, 2024 at 5:30 AM Guernsey picked Brittany Ferries to operate its services for the next 15 years but Jersey is yet to decide [BBC]
The company was founded in August 1984 as Channel Island Ferries by a consortium made up of Brittany Ferries, Huelin Renouf and Mainland Market Deliveries (MMD) to compete with Sealink British Ferries services to Portsmouth and Weymouth.
Condor Ferries operate services to Poole and Portsmouth in England, St Malo in France, and to Jersey. Condor Ferries became the main operator to the UK following the closure of British Channel Island Ferries in 1994. Previously Sealink (and its railway ferries predecessors) had been the main operator for many decades. Freight goes on a ...
M/V Fort Fisher on the Southport–Fort Fisher Ferry route. Knotts Island–Currituck: This route was created in the fall of 1962, and is the world's longest free ferry. It links NC 615 to the mainland, across the Currituck Sound between Knott's Island and Currituck. This was done to shorten the travel time for Knott's Island school children to ...
The choice was based on cost and the likely benefit of cross-channel ferries. The site was at the end of the newly constructed M275 . Originally built with two berths the site opened in 1976 with the Earl William ( Sealink ) running to the Channel Islands , the Viking Victory (Townsend Thoresen) running to Cherbourg, and Brittany Ferries ...
Condor Ferries established the first high-speed car ferry service to the Channel Islands from Weymouth in 1993 using the 74m Incat catamaran Condor 10.In the winter of 1993/1994, one of Condor's parent companies; Commodore Shipping, took over British Channel Island Ferries (BCIF) which operated conventional ferry services to the Channel Islands from Poole.
She entered service with Condor Ferries between Weymouth and the Channel Islands in April 1993 replacing the smaller passenger only Condor 9. With Condor 10 , Condor Ferries captured a significant share of the Channel Island passenger market which resulted in the closure and sale of British Channel Island Ferries which operated from Poole in 1994.
In March 2023, it was confirmed that the vessel had been secured by Condor Ferries in the UK for services between Portsmouth and the Channel Islands. [4] Shortly afterward, it was announced that the vessel would be renamed as Condor Islander.