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Portsmouth Port on the Crest of a Wave
Passengers are returning to ferries in increasing numbers from Portsmouth
and away from cheap flights, according to latest statistics.
The upward trend is on all lines, and comes amid year-on-year growth for operators such as LD Lines and Brittany Ferries, as well for P&O Ferries.
And it has increased enough for LD Lines to start looking around for an extra vessel to charter for a short-term measure to take advantage prior to the introduction of its new-build vessel in 2010.
It also comes with ferries competing with the airlines in terms of product and price with numbers up on the Dover Straits.
LD Lines, which operates between Portsmouth and Le Havre is reporting an 11 per cent ncrease in the numbers of passengers it has taken from 2006 to 2007, with the figures rising from 264,536 passengers in 2006 to 293,729 last year.
Brittany Ferries, which runs vessels between Portsmouth, Caen, StMalo and Cherbourg, had seen falls of between four to six per cent last year but this year after a 15 per cent across the board cut in ticket prices, its forward bookings are looking far stronger.
Spokesman Stephen Tuckwell said: 'Ferries are bouncing back and have been properly since last summer. We've shown good growth in October, November and December and in the first quarter of this year forward bookings are looking good.'
The upward trend is on all lines, and comes amid year-on-year growth for operators such as LD Lines and Brittany Ferries, as well for P&O Ferries.
And it has increased enough for LD Lines to start looking around for an extra vessel to charter for a short-term measure to take advantage prior to the introduction of its new-build vessel in 2010.
It also comes with ferries competing with the airlines in terms of product and price with numbers up on the Dover Straits.
LD Lines, which operates between Portsmouth and Le Havre is reporting an 11 per cent ncrease in the numbers of passengers it has taken from 2006 to 2007, with the figures rising from 264,536 passengers in 2006 to 293,729 last year.
Brittany Ferries, which runs vessels between Portsmouth, Caen, StMalo and Cherbourg, had seen falls of between four to six per cent last year but this year after a 15 per cent across the board cut in ticket prices, its forward bookings are looking far stronger.
Spokesman Stephen Tuckwell said: 'Ferries are bouncing back and have been properly since last summer. We've shown good growth in October, November and December and in the first quarter of this year forward bookings are looking good.'
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