press releases

Britain’s travel agents voted P&O Ferries the nation’s best ferry company at the Travel Weekly Globe Awards.

P&O Ferries will on Tuesday 24 January take delivery of its second new  €180 million ship, Spirit of France, during a handover ceremony at the STX Europe shipyard in Rauma, Finland.

Frequent travellers can lock into low fares to France with P&O Ferries in 2012 with season tickets for the company’s Dover – Calais service.

P&O Ferries has alterations to its services over the festive period.

P&O Ferries has introduced more capacity to its Dover – Calais service in light of the disruption to SeaFrance services on the route.

P&O Ferries will strongly contest any attempt by the French authorities to use illegal state aid to prop up the remains of failed French ferry operator SeaFrance.

P&O Ferries was named Ferry Operator of the Year at the British Travel Awards 2011, which is widely regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of the travel industry.

P&O Ferries has uncorked a cracking deal to kick-start cross Channel shopping trips in the run up to Christmas.

New European Commission proposals on sulphur emissions threaten the future of the UK ferry industry and jobs in the maritime sector, according to leading operator P&O Ferries.

Hop across the Channel to jazz up autumn with a visit to the fortnight long Tourcoing Jazz Festival, 15 – 29 October.

Villagers in the tiny French farming community of Ors have paid a moving tribute to the greatest of our wartime poets with the creation of a Wilfred Owen memorial centre.

P&O Ferries is offering customers the chance to make the most of a mini cruise to Holland or Belgium this autumn with a two for one deal.

P&O Ferries is laying on extra Dover - Calais sailings over the Bank Holiday weekend in response to threatened industrial action at Eurotunnel.

P&O Ferries is set for a busy August Bank Holiday. Its Dover-Calais service alone will carry close to 100,000 passengers over the three-day weekend.

Dover charity Pegasus Playscheme has received a donation of £1,000 from staff at P&O Ferries.

Growth in its unaccompanied freight traffic has led P&O Ferries to charter a new and highly-efficient cargo ship from the Finnish ferry company Bore Ltd.

P&O Ferries is giving away a free one day Disneyland Resort Paris ‘Hopper’ ticket worth £51 with car bookings made on its Dover – Calais service this summer.

Staff at P&O Ferries in Dover have donated £1,000 to the Pilgrims Hospices at Canterbury and Thanet in Kent.

P&O Ferries is offering bargain three-day fares from just £39 return for a car and passengers to coincide with one of France's biggest and best music festivals.

For an affordable day out with a difference P&O Ferries has a special offer for foot passenger day trip fares on its Dover – Calais service during the Easter school holidays and into May.

For a truly spectacular sight this Easter check out Europe’s biggest kite festival just across the Channel at the seaside town of  Berck-sur-Mer.

Double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes DBE MBE added another title to her collection on 24 March when she became Godmother to P&O Ferries’ giant new €180 million ship Spirit of Britain.

Come tiptoe through the tulips with P&O Ferries this spring on a visit to Holland’s renowned Keukenhof gardens, where the best bulb growers in the world vie with each other to showcase their skills.

Take a day trip to France with P&O Ferries on the Dover – Calais route this Spring and you can pick up three free bottles of JP Chenet wine on board into the bargain.

P&O Ferries will support the search for the nation’s best young chef with a £5,000 sponsorship deal.

Britain’s travel agents voted P&O Ferries the nation’s best ferry company at the Travel Weekly Globe Awards.

P&O Ferries’ new €180 million ship Spirit of Britain arrived at Dover for the first time today (Sunday 9 January) following a three-day delivery voyage from her construction shipyard at Rauma, Finland.