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Cross Channel Ferry Ports
- Not an entrapment site selling or promoting tickets on
commission, no adverts, no kickbacks to author.
- Just Lists Of Ferry Ports &
Routes Between British Isles & Continental Europe, Ferry Companies, & Government Corona Restrictions
- for when Disruptions hit
channel crossings, & author & others searching other routes
across the Channel, Perhaps stuck in a car in France or
Belgium, on a high cost roaming mobile smart phone, searching which ports have
ferries to drive to, & avoiding
agent entrapment sites, & averse to sites burdened with
spurious slow flashy bandwidth eating graphics, so as much searching as possible
is done prior to travel, & linked here. Status Reports - Translations - Maps Map of ferry
routes
- Author a British
resident in Continental Europe (Brexit damaged British
living in the EU, & EU people living in the UK (way
beyond what tourists see, eg: stopping Brits to EU bringing
any Cheddar, Scotch eggs, Bacon, & reduced to 2 bottles
of Port).
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Continental European Ports (In North
East to South West order)
- Esbjerg, Denmark
- Cuxhaven, Germany
- Bremerhaven, Germany
- Amsterdam, Holland
- Rotterdam, Holland
- Hook = Hoek, 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 (& Irish) Ports (In
clockwise order: North East, South East, South West, North
West & Ireland)
- Hull, England
- Harwich, Suffolk, England
- 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
- Liverpool, England
- Rosslare Southern
Ireland
- Belfast Northern Ireland
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Ferry Companies (Short crossings
first)
- Status Reports
- Travel Tips
- Disruptions
- Migrants
- Author
Channel & North Sea Ports With Car Ferry Routes
OpenStreetMap
English Channel & North Sea
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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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- 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-labeled
"/Dover", (even
when English not French is selected)
The idiots assume all travelers 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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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: Irish Ferries (New Route 2022)
& DFDS & Disgraced P&O
Ferries
- DFDS
- Disgraced
P&O Ferries to Dover
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OpenStreetMap . org / node / 2502690882 # map=15 /
48.7222 / -3.9649
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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, Brittany=Bretagne,
France (South of Jersey & Guernesey) 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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Newcastle
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Hull , Yorkshire or near,
England
Between Spurn Head & Leeds
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Harwich
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Ramsgate
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Dover
- Irish Ferries (New
Route 2022)
- DFDS
- Disgraced
P&O Ferries
- 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 practicing 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, North to ....
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Liverpool
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Ireland then a 2nd ferry to Wales or England.
ports . com /
sea / english - channel /
Ports from mariners perspective, Not Ferry Passenger's'
Perspective.
- Shortest route first eg Calais - Dover.
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DFDS
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P&O provoke English speakers to advise foreign friends
to use DFDS & Irish
Ferries since P&O criminaly
sacked 800 & then some P&O ships
failed safety.
Portsmouth - { Le
Havre, Caen , {Cherbourg (3 hours, 9 Sailings
Weekly)} } ; Poole - Cherbourg ; Portsmouth - Roscoff.
Ferry Agents
ferries:
Book ferry in advance by internet, cheaper than at port.
Within last 24 hours it costs more.
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 competent to work out the light pattern in
advance eg in a dark garage] : 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, Brexit a UK NI
/ GB Irish trade disruption; Disgraced P&O
Ferries sacking 800 staff & stopping
all ferries without notice, etc) ?
Find another ferry port to/ from England here.
2019 or earlier: Brexit money wasted on
Un-realised Ports & Ferry Co
2020 & 2021 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
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:
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
/
2021-01-14:
politico . eu / article / ferry - firms - avoid - britain -
with - brexit - buster - services - from - ireland - to -
eu /
2021-02-14
France and Ireland open new ferry routes to bypass
UK
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
Even if a port is marked here as "No Car Ferries", still
listed as shipping operators, as to quote a friend
Truck ferries used to allow cars, just didn't
advertise. I think Dunkirk - Dover was truck only
originally.
Corona legal restrictions
on travel constantly change, so this page links to reference
sources, but does not include age-ing info that would need
maintenance.
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Index Of Countries Corona Border Regulations
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Which Corona info to trust where
? Who is authoritative on legal requirements ?
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Best [if one can] trust the Official web site of
government of the country you will visit describing
their own requirements.
(But French government web pages weren't up to
date for a week or more after the Omicron panic,
& France even banned French living in London,
returning to France for Xmas, then relaxed a tad,
allowing Brits who lived in France to return to
France, but still banned transit of other EU citizens
back from UK via France to other EU countries, then
allowed (& documented on web) transit back from
UK of unaccounted Brits resident in other EU
states.)
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Use just as hints, to then search on official
sites:
- Your home country's government page about other
countries regs (may be wrong or old) .
- Ferry & Tunnel operators web pages
- Media
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Do not trust non government sites, eg commercial travel
providers.
eg; Do not believe
Chunnel: "Our understanding of the UK Government's
position is that" about quarantine exemption.
Instead read gov.uk
rules &
job exemptions
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ENGLAND
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TO ENGLAND:
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gov . uk / guidance / travel - to - england - from -
another - country - during - coronavirus - covid -
19
("You can take the test any time after you arrive
and before the end of day 2 at the latest. The day
you arrive in England is day 0.")
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Pre departure test:
gov . uk / guidance / coronavirus - covid - 19 -
testing - for - people - traveling - to - england #
type - of - test
The test must meet performance standards of
#97% specificity, #80% sensitivity at viral loads
above 100,000 copies/ml.
This could include tests such as:
a nucleic acid test, including a PCR test
a
LAMP test
an antigen test, such as an LFD (lateral flow
device) test
You must check with your test provider that the
test meets the standards. You may not be able to
travel if it does not.
The test could be either:
a face-to-face or in-person test
a self-administered test
For comparison,
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Before arrival, Booking the Day 2
PCR Test
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Passenger Locator Form, filled before arrival,
needs the order number of the Day 2
PCR Test
gov . uk / provide - journey - contact - details -
before - travel - uk
Form needs the detail from booking the Day 2 PCR
Test
Last I looked: Typical badly worded UK
government corona web
page with the 'must' in "You must complete the
form online." & GBP 100 fine & "You
cannot submit the form until 48 hours before
you're due to arrive in the UK." Though further
reading back then referred to filling form on
arrival. Doubtless all changed weekly. But Not
everyone has internet, especially while
traveling, & itineraries can change, on
factors inc. various government's frequent snap
rule changes.
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FROM ENGLAND:
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FRANCE
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TO FRANCE FROM UK:
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gouvernement . fr / en / news
- @ 2022-02-21 Useless: - Last item was "10
September 2020"
- @ 2022-06-06 Obsolete - Whole directory is gone
& redirects to URL OK 2022-06-06: www . gouvernement .
fr
- For old pages: URL OK 2022-06-06:
archive . org
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GERMANY
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TO GERMANY FROM UK
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By German Government
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By UK Government:
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FROM GERMANY TO UK:
- By UK Government
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By German Government
UK Government: Maritime and Coastguard Agency &
Maritime passenger rights
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