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P&O Ferries

Headquarters: Dover
Founded: 2002
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

322,994

Summed over 10 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What P&O Ferries is

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P&O Ferries is a British shipping company that operates ferries from Scotland to Northern Ireland, and from England to Continental Europe (France, Belgium and the Netherlands). The company was created in 2002 through mergers and acquisitions within P&O. It has been owned by Dubai-based DP World since 2019.

Quoted from P&O Ferries on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: transport
Legal form: privately held company
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Dover
Formed in: —
Founded: 2002
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 51.1275, 1.3122

Ships on record here: 11
Vessel types operated: 4
Flag states used: 6
Average vessel age: 23.4 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1979
Newest vessel on record: 2023
Largest vessel by tonnage: 59,925
Average tonnage: 32,299
Market share: —
Parent company: DP World
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 11 vessels this registry attributes to P&O Ferries. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Schichau Seebeckwerft2

STX Finland2

CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Company2

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries1

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding1

Van der Giessen de Noord1

Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 2 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	0	—	9
2018	0	—	9
2019	0	—	9
2020	0	—	9
2021	0	—	9
2022	0	—	9
2023	2	47,653	11
2024	0	—	11
2025	0	—	11
2026	0	—	11

Vessel records

Ships on record

11 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MS Pride of Hull	9208629	Unclassified	The Bahamas	2001	59,925	—	215.4 m	Fincantieri
P&O Liberté	9895173	Ferry	Cyprus	2023	47,653	—	229.7 m	CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Company
Spirit of Britain	9524231	Ferry	Cyprus	2011	47,592	9,500	212.0 m	STX Finland
Spirit of France	9533816	Passenger vessel	Cyprus	2011	47,592	9,884	212.0 m	STX Finland
MS Pride of Burgundy	9015254	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1993	28,138	—	179.7 m	Schichau Seebeckwerft
Stena Forecaster	9214678	Ro-Ro	Denmark	2003	24,688	12,300	179.2 m	Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company
MS European Seaway	9007283	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1991	22,986	—	179.7 m	Schichau Seebeckwerft
European Causeway	9208394	Ferry	The Bahamas	2000	20,646	—	165.0 m	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Norbay	9056595	Ferry	Bermuda	1994	17,464	—	167.0 m	Van der Giessen de Noord
MS European Envoy	7716074	Unclassified	Panama	1979	6,310	—	150.0 m	Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding
P&O Pioneer	9895161	Ferry	Cyprus	2023	—	—	—	CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Company

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How P&O Ferries compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 11 vessels attributed to it here, P&O Ferries is the 81st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which P&O Ferries ranks 5th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 2002, P&O Ferries is 24 years old. This directory holds 142 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q2519829, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from P&O Ferries on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.