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Cross Channel Ferry Ports
- Not an entrapment site selling or promoting tickets on
commission, no adverts, no kickbacks to author.
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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
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).
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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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
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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.
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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: 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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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
- 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
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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 ....
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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.
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Portsmouth - { Le Havre, Caen , {Cherbourg (3 hours, 9
Sailings Weekly)} } ; Poole - Cherbourg ; Portsmouth - Roscoff.
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Portsmouth - Cherbourg 7/week, 5.5 hours; Weymouth - St Malo
infrequent, 13 hours.
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- If desperate, there's also double ferry hops, eg France -
Ireland
+ Ireland - England.
Maybe useful 2020-05-22 when stupid UK Home
Secretary (of the phobic Brexiteer cabinet that stole expat votes) madly
shoved her
quarantine of people entering UK, despite most or all of
Europe vastly Less Infected
than Britain ;-)
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; PO
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.
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