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Extra decks
are being added to P&O Ferries’ European Pathway at the Lloyd
Werft schipyard in Bremerhaven. Germany as part of a £50m conversion
project.
The two freight ferries, which became available with the closure of the
company’s Dover-Zeebrügge freight service at the end of last
year, will be reborn as multi-purpose superferries on the Dover-Calais
route before the start of the busy summer season.
Each ship will gain an extra 5.000m² of passenger accommodation,
with extensions to decks 7 through 10 and other works requiring some 1.400
tonnes of steel, 50 tonnes of paint and 120 km of calbing. Seating is
being added for 2.000 passengers as well as restaurants, bars shops and
entertainment areas.
Mechanically each vessel will receive a new diesel genset to meet increased
power demand. Uprated bow thrusters and new rudder flaps.
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