Normandie Express, which is being renamed Condor Voyager to operate from Poole for Condor Ferries this summer CONDOR Ferries is expecting to create around 100 jobs thanks to an expected summer boom in bookings. The company, which runs between Poole, the Channel Islands and France, recently announced it was adding a Brittany Ferries ship to its routes. The Condor Voyager, previously called the Normandie Express, will provide more capacity on the routes already served by Condor Liberation. Condor says it expects to take on around 100 staff in seasonal and permanent roles this summer, split between ports and ships. “Once that’s complete, we will be carrying out some sea trials in all our ports and then sailing to use the ship in the summer alongside Condor Liberation and hopefully get people to meet up with friends and family and go on their long-anticipated holiday,” he said.
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Normandie Express, which is being renamed Condor Voyager to operate from Poole for Condor Ferries this summer CONDOR Ferries is expecting to create around 100 jobs thanks to an expected summer boom in bookings. The company, which runs between Poole, the Channel Islands and France, recently announced it was adding a Brittany Ferries ship to its routes. The Condor Voyager, previously called the Normandie Express, will provide more capacity on the routes already served by Condor Liberation. Condor says it expects to take on around 100 staff in seasonal and permanent roles this summer, split between ports and ships. “Once that’s complete, we will be carrying out some sea trials in all our ports and then sailing to use the ship in the summer alongside Condor Liberation and hopefully get people to meet up with friends and family and go on their long-anticipated holiday,” he said.
A&P Falmouth Reports Six Months of 100% Occupancy
22nd April 2021
Among the clients of A&P Falmouth involved a regular Ireland-mainland Europe containership, Samskip Express which following a grounding on the Irish coast (last year), led to extensive repairs carried out at the UK shipyard repair facility in Cornwall. AFLOAT also adds the 803TEU capacity containership was recently in Dublin Port (as above in this file photo) and is currently berthed in the Port of Rotterdam.
Credit: Jehan Ashmore
The largest shipyard-repair complex in the UK, A&P Falmouth, announced that they had a 100% occupancy of all three dry docks over the last six months - with some docks occupied simultaneously by multiple vessels.