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Cross Channel Ferry Ports
This is not an another ferry agent entrapment site trying
to flog you a ticket on commission, or flogging adverts
It is just a List Of Ferry Routes
between British Isles & Contental Europe - for when
disruptions hit your channel
crossing again, & you are searching for another route
across the Channel, Perhaps stuck in a car on a high cost
roaming mobile smart phone, searching which ports have
ferries to drive to, & wanting to avoid agent entrapment
sites, & sites burdened with spurious flashy bandwidth
eating graphics.
Status
Reports - Translations - Maps Map of ferry
routes
Stop Press: 2020-09-01
Index (In North East to South West
order)
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Continental European Ports
- Esbjerg, Denmark
- Cuxhaven, Germany
- Bremerhaven, Germany
- Amsterdam, Holland
- Rotterdam, Holland
- Hook, Holland
- Zeebrugge, Belgium
- Ostend, Belgium
- Dunkirk East Port Freight,
France
- Dunkirk West Port
Ferries, France
- Calais, France
- Chunnel, France
- Boulogne, France
- Dieppe, France
- Le Havre, France
- Caen, France
- Cherbourg, France
- St Malo, France
- Roscoff, France
- Bilbao Spain
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English Ports
- Ramsgate, Kent,
England
- Dover, Kent,
England
- Folkestone, Kent,
England
- Chunnel, England
- Newhaven East
Sussex, England
- Portsmouth Hampshire,
England
- Southampton Hampshire,
England
- Poole Hampshire,
England
- Weymouth Hampshire,
England
- Plymouth Hampshire,
England
- Rosslare Southern
Ireland
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Ferry Companies
- Status Reports
- Travel Tips
- Disruptions Mitigated
- Migrants
- Author
Channel & North Sea Ports With Car Ferry Routes
Openstreetmap
English Channel & North Sea
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Hook Of Holland
To Harwich,
England
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Zeebrugge, Belgium
(North of
Brugge = Bruge) - To Hull,
England
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, East of
Bruge) - To Ramsgate ,
England
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- Ferries: at West Port
- Town: wikipedia
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Both Ports
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Dunkirk East Port - No Ferries
- Old, for small ships.
- Openstreetmap
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Google pic. of Eastern port adjacent to Western
edge of Dunkirk old centre of town
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ports . com (East: not a ferry
port.)
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dunkerque
- port . fr
Bad web site (tried in both French &
English).
- No mention of which of East
or West port for ferries, frequencies,
or departure times, destinations
etc
If in desperation you click on eg
"grand-port" You get finance &
politics, nothing about which of the 2
is the bigger ferry port ;-).
- Includes a
picture of Eastern
port
- No Ferry Status
Report (unlike eg Calais) (Yet they
index a Status Report for non passenger
ship departures) and they hide one
picture of a ferry (5th pic. among
12), if you search long
enough.
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No plain bold statement eg
"West port for ferries.", so you have
to examine same size aerial photos of
both East & West ports, compare
sizes, & deduce East port has
lock gates to an inner harbour,
before it's obvious:
- East port is older, for
small ships.
- West Port is newer,
larger, For Passenger
Ferries.
- Before discovering the
above, one wastes time searching,
assuming there's probably some other
web site for the Western passenger
ferry port, but eventually realising:
No, their web site seems to cover both
ports, & has Nothing
Useful!
- Even their other port
selector is stupid (when you find it):
They only accept daft "Douvres", Not
co-labelled "/Dover", (even when English
not French is selected) The idiots
assume all travellers inc. not just
English speakers, but Germans &
Polish, Spanish speakers etc using
English as a 2nd Language will All know
to Only search for Dover by French name of
"Douvres" !
- No link to portdedunkerque
. fr noticed.
- portdedunkerque
. fr
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_port_maritime_de_Dunkerque
- ports -
guides . com 28 nm to Dover shown in 2 straight
lines.
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- Ferries: P&O & DFDS
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openstreetmap . org / node / 2502690882 # map=15 /
48.7222 / -3.9649
- poferries . com / en / calais -
dover
- & Later DFDS (DFDS not in
first few days while striker disruption from MyFerryLink . com
)
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openstreetmap
- wikipedia
- calais - port
. com Useful Status Report but (after a week)
fixed text still falsely states "Jusqu'à 3
départs par heure, 24h/24 et 7j/7" (3
departures per hour" even when only P&O is shown,
& DFDS not listed, presumably
as ex myferrylink.com still striking. Sample
from 2015.07.12 17:02 : 10 ships between 17:15 &
01:20.
- calais -
port . fr
- ports .
com 27 nm to Dover if sailed in straight lines
- ports-guides.com
- To Dover: 1.5 hours,
33 Sailings Daily
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Another migrant camp -
Adjacent East of final left turn West into approach
road to port.
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Brexit Chaos
? Extra Links to search from :
Remember to also search English
media for traffic chaos .
- BBC
map of migrant camps, tunnel & port
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Sangatte old closed migrant
camp - Openstreetmap
- Calais is a nice little town worth a visit,
enormous free car park adjacent to high street, I much
enjoyed a stroll along high street & into the park
(maybe 2014 or 2013 ? while waiting for booked ferry),
& giant pictures of global environmental features
in the park, though I guess pictures probably long
gone).
- The migrant camp was
cleared once or twice, but is back @ 219. Occasionally
migrant block cars on
autoroute, cars then blocks the trucks, migrant invade back of trucks, chucking
out boxes to make room for more migrant. Lots more barbed wire fences
near Calais port. French army with machine guns before
the French border inspection, Then British border
guards, they very often examine vehicles, looking for
smuggled people, not goods, (being EU, no one's
interested, pre Brexit ;-) Then comes
the ferry company: Their cameras recognise car reg. no.
(at least they do in Dover, I
recall in Calais too) I always have booking reference
number on paper, & show it with passport. (Ferry
wants to see passport, as ferry co. get fined if they
transport illegals).
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Chunnel =
Channel Rail Tunnel Eurostar - France To England Folkestone], Ashford &
London
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Cherbourg, France - To Plymouth & Poole, England
& Rosslare, Ireland (Thence Fishgard, Wales
& Pembroke, Wales)
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St Malo, France To Portsmouth, England,
& Poole, England via
Jersey
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Roscoff, France - To, Plymouth, England & Cork,
Ireland
(Thence road to Rosslare)
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Ramsgate
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Dover
- openstreetmap
- doverport.co.uk
(Eastern docks for all Ferries)
Coming from continent to UK: Before
leaving docks, well before seeing the roundabout
(that is immediately outside docks, but when you can
see it, it is too late!): Stay in Right lane for the
M20, a shorter motorway to London via Folkestone. It's all too easy to
make the mistake of practising keeping in left lane
now in England, then by mistake being swept up the
ramp to dual carriageway to Canterbury, which has the
M2 to London, but less & older motorway &
longer distance. You cannot just go round the
roundabout because even inside the docks the left
filter lane has concrete walls blocking access to the
roundabout.
- Wikipedia
Town
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Brexit
Chaos ? Extra Links to search from :
Remember to also search French
media for traffic chaos.
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Folkestone
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Chunnel =
Channel Rail Tunnel Eurostar - England, London,
Ashford, Folkestone] To Calais France, & Brussels
Belgium & ?
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Newhaven
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Portsmouth West of Isle of
Wight
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Southampton North of Isle of
Wight
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Poole near Bournemouth
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Weymouth
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Plymouth
- Beyond Lands End, Cornwall, to {
Rosslare & Dublin
} Ireland then a 2nd ferry to Wales or England.
ports . com /
sea / english - channel / Ports from mariners
perspective, Not Ferry Passenger's' Perspective.
Ferry Agents
Ferries:
Book ferry in advance by internet, cheaper than at port. I
think within last 24 hours it costs more, not certain.
Routes:
Through Luxembourg for cheaper fuel. No autoroute toll
charge on route I used. From Aachen to Calais, Brussels always has traffic jams. 120
km/h in Belgium, 130 in France.
Belgium to France border heading West from Brussels:
Since Brussels bombers in Paris: 2018 it was a single
diversion off autoroute, drive round a roundabout, giving
police a chance to view people, back on autoroute. 2019-03
it was 2 roundabouts, & when back on autoroute, single
file a long way in fast lane, with police cars parked in
slow lane, ready as chase cars.
Alcohol Breathalysers,
France requires cars have 2 alcohol breathalysers,
(chemical not electronic).
Headlights:
[Only if you are on competent to work out the light
pattern] : No need on ferry to buy little stick on bits for
lights (as dipped lights on continental cars go to right,
blinding oncoming British drivers). Instead just look
carefully at headlamp glass, & see where the prisms
are: German lights when dipped, have prisms on left of
glass, that bend light to the right to illuminate german
pedestrians at right of road. Just block those prisms. My
Subaru prisms section is from memory maybe 6cm long &
4cm high, tapering in toward centre. I normally tape up
while waiting in the port.
Toll crossing under River Thames:
Avoid the London congestion zone.
Dover / Calais
ferry or tunnel or some other
ports disrupted (eg by weather,
strikes, Corona pandemic government restrictions either side
of the channel etc) ? Find another ferry port to/ from
England here.
2019 or earlier: Brexit money wasted on
Un-realised Ports & Ferry Co
2020 Corona
pandemic
UK government has varying regulations for France,
Belgium, Netherlands & Germany, Denmark (that they
change at extremely short notice, provoking
chaotic pressure to rush back to UK early to avoid
quarantine) .
List mailman
. berklix . org / mailman / listinfo / bg - chat also
discusses travel to/from UK., eg extracts from
mailman . berklix . org / mailman / private / bg - chat /
2020q3 / 000269 . html
www . gov . uk / guidance / coronavirus - covid - 19 -
countries - and - territories - exempt - from - advice -
against - all - but - essential - international -
travel
Mere advice from Johnson's Brexiteer
bungler
liar regime
that also illegally
pro-rogued parliament , & failed to
Corona differentiate between Spain & Spanish Balearic
Islands
UK law is of more interest than mere UK advice, so
searching for mandatory regulations:
www . gov . uk / guidance / coronavirus - covid - 19 -
travel - corridors
Which @ 2020-08-17 was too Loosely worded, & failed
to address specifics, so I sent section below to
government with button: Is there anything wrong with
this page?
- In ferry queue, passenger _can_ get out,
even if they don't.
- Driver has to stop close to ferry
inspector, & receive ticket, Is it "mix with other
people" ?
- Driver has to stop close to customs, hand
& receive passport Is it "mix with other people" ?
Driver sometime must get out, walk round, open boot
& or doors for smuggled immigrant & goods check
Is it "mix with other people" ?
- We have to "mix with other people"
walking up from car to passenger deck inside French
quarantined territorial waters. Regulations do not
provide exemption.
- People will probably get out of vehicle
for toilet somewhere in transit country/ies, or at port
in quarantined France, or on board ferry in French
territorial water (unless a vehicle is a camper van
with toilet, or unless a male by a bush alone at night)
What of that is "mix with other people"
?
Johnson's UK regime regularly fumbles
regulations at just a few hours notice (eg at same time
school to university exam results), so
better read something more worth while
Wikipedia on prevention of COVID-19
pandemic
Another possible way (apart from fly from Munich to UK) to avoid the via
Calais to UK quarantine, might be to take a car train ?
Though there are no through trains through the tunnel from
Germany. All change in Brussels or Paris for passengers or
Calais for cars. LJK thinks car train is not even close to
Chunnel terminal and
discontinued.
car train from Germany None to France or UK: Search with : car train
munich england. They used to go to Calais and Perpignan and
Naples, etc... DB gave up the Autozug in 2016, all private
now. Car trains all over Europe shrinking, Calais not on
the list...
tourenfahrer . de / reise / autoreisezuege - in - europa
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The generic term Migrants is used, not the specific term
Refugees, because it depends where someone comes from, &
conditions there, & reason for movement, & laws vary,
& until people are classified by local law as legal
refugees, illegal migrants, or whatever other spectrum of
names, the generic word Migrant is used, as is used in eg
annual bird migrations, summer migrations cross channel also
increase in summer
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