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P&O
Ferries boasts the largest
fleet of ships offering a wide
range of services and facilities,
the most comprehensive route
network and the most frequent
passenger and freight services to
the Continent.
With
ferry industry trade body, the
Passenger Shipping Association,
launching Ferry Fortnight in May
here’s five things you didn’t
know about P&O Ferries.
Paws
for thought P&O
Ferries launched the Pet Passport
system, which has transformed
holidays for cats, dogs and
ferrets, when a pug called Frodo
sailed into Dover on 28 February
2000. Nearly 600,000 pets have
used the scheme since then.
Ferry
inspirational If you’re
inspired to sing on the Hull -
Rotterdam crossing you’re in
good company. Paul Heaton, lead
singer with The Beautiful South,
composed lyrics for hit records on
board. All together now: “This
could be anywhere, Liverpool or
Rome, ‘cause Rotterdam is
anywhere, anywhere alone.”
Beavering
away Beavers travel with
P&O Ferries as the company
helps conservationists looking to
reintroduce the rodents to our
shores. They travel from the
Continent to Dover heading for
Ham, near Sandwich (you couldn’t
make it up.)
My
name is Michael Mega star
Michael Caine stares at you from
the menus on board all the best
restaurants at P&O Ferries,
because the actor was a co-founder
of top London eaterie Langan’s
Brasserie, that the ferry company
took to sea ten years ago.
Jaw
dropping Seafarers at
P&O Ferries were asked to keep
watch for Jaws after reports that
Great White Sharks were in the
English Channel. Only one suspect
showed up which some experts said
wasn’t real. But scientists
really do study whales and
dolphins from the ferry sailing
between Portsmouth and Bilbao.
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