BRITTANY FERRIES is to move in quickly following the P&O announcement that it is closing its Portsmouth - Cherbourg route at the end of this year.
Brittany Ferries plans to recommence a service on 3 January using its 30,000-ton luxury cruise-ferry, Val de Loire.
To give you an idea of size it is more or less the same as Swann Hellenic's new 650-passenger Minerva II cruise liner but with two cinemas and no swimming pool.
Crossing time is just five hours. This will be supplemented by a new high-speed service from mid-March to mid-November.
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