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31 Aug 2000

P&O Stena Lines Resumes Operations

P&O Stena Line has resumed full passenger and freight services from the British port of Dover after French fishermen began to lift their blockade of French ports. P&O spokeswoman Gail Isted said that the company's vessel 'Dover' had left Calais in France for Dover in mid-afternoon. "P&O Stena Line ferries will now leave Dover and Calais every 45 minutes and will revert to their usual sailing patterns overnight," the company said in a statement. Isted added that delays to passenger cars of about nine hours and to trucks of six hours were being reduced and would be cleared some time on Friday (Sept. 1). P&O Stena Line ran six tourist ferries from Dover to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge both on Wednesday and Thursday to avoid the blockade, she said.

29 Oct 1999

Booze Cruises Still Booming

Despite doom and gloom forecasts from ferry operators, the abolition of duty free sales has not slowed the demand for ferry day-trippers. Four months after the European Union abolished duty-free sales, thousands of eager British "Booze Cruisers" still pour daily across the English Channel, lured by the cheaper prices in France. Paris and London may be locked in an angry war of words over France's continuing ban on British beef, but day-trippers cannot resist the lure of cigarette and whisky bargains. "If anything, more people have been traveling recently," said Gail Isted, spokeswoman for P&O Stena Line, which carries 12 million passengers a year on its Dover-Calais run.