{"id":327945,"date":"2025-08-08T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327945\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:14:10","slug":"brittany-ferries-expands-france-ireland-route-as-stena-line-withdraws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/327945\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Ferries Expands France-Ireland Route as Stena Line Withdraws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Increase in service comes as Stena Line stop serving the route<\/p>\n<p>\n        Brittany Ferries will soon offer daily Ireland-France crossings<br \/>\n        MarkUK97 \/ Shutterstock\n    <\/p>\n<p>Brittany Ferries will increase the number of services between Ireland and France after competitor Stena Line announced it is withdrawing its passenger route between the two countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The operator will increase the number of weekly services between Rosslare and Cherbourg from five to seven from the start of October 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connexionfrance.com\/news\/stena-line-to-end-popular-france-ireland-ferry-crossing\/732938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just after the Stena Line service between the ports ends<\/a>\u00a0in September.<\/p>\n<p>At time of publication the Brittany Ferries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brittany-ferries.ie\/map\/timetables-pdf?country=IRL&amp;departure=IEROE&amp;arrival=FRCER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">timetable shows a daily service operating only for the month of October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Full schedules will be published shortly, after T\u2019s have been crossed and I\u2019s dotted,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connexionfrance.com\/news\/brittany-ferries-announces-2026-schedule-new-france-uk-route\/736632\" data-lab-font_weight=\"font-weight-bold\" class=\"font-weight-bold m-font-weight-bold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittany Ferries announced its new scheduling<\/a>\u00a0for the upcoming year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNews that our competitor was stepping back started the firing pistol in a concerted effort to secure port slots and better serve customers in Ireland and France,\u201d said Brittany Ferries CEO Christophe Mathieu in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrittany Ferries is a company that prides itself on its ability to move quickly when opportunity knocks,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is good demand for the route according to Glenn Carr, Director Commercial Business Units for Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann Irish Rail \u2013 Port Authority for Rosslare Europort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince Brexit, direct sailings between Rosslare Europort and the European Continent have increased sixfold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority has been to ensure we maintain that capacity and choice for industry and tourism alike,\u201d Mr Carr added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Increase in service comes as Stena Line stop serving the route Brittany Ferries will soon offer daily Ireland-France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-327945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114993329981739731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}