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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
322,994
Summed over 10 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
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.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
DP World
Owned by
Services and products
Fleet on record
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 shipbuilder
Delivery history
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 | Deliveries | 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
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9895173 | Ferry | Cyprus | 2023 | 47,653 | — | 229.7 m | CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Company | |
| 9524231 | Ferry | Cyprus | 2011 | 47,592 | 9,500 | 212.0 m | STX Finland | |
| 9208394 | Ferry | The Bahamas | 2000 | 20,646 | — | 165.0 m | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | |
| 9056595 | Ferry | Bermuda | 1994 | 17,464 | — | 167.0 m | Van der Giessen de Noord | |
| 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
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.
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Provenance
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.