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Prior to 1988, the same run was served by the Island Holiday from the mid-1950s until 1978, and the Catalina Holiday from 1978 until 1988, both also operated by Catalina Passenger Service. [ 3 ] The Catalina Flyer is the largest passenger-carrying catamaran on the West Coast of the United States [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and at the time it was launched it ...
Catalina Express' Starship Express ferry in 2008. Catalina Express (legally Catalina Channel Express) is an American passenger ferry service that operates scheduled trips between Santa Catalina Island and mainland California. The company began service in 1981 with a single sixty-passenger vessel.
Island Packers is an American passenger ferry service that operates scheduled trips between Channel Islands National Park and mainland California. The company began service in 1968. [1] In January 2024, Island Packers entered a new 10-year contract with the National Park Service. [1]
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.
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.
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.
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 ...