Ferries: Freight

(asked on 18th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 51906 on Ferries: Freight, what recent estimate has made of the value of the Public Service Obligation agreements in place with operators on ferry routes from (a) Hull, (b) Dover and (c) other eligible routes from a UK port.


Answered by
Kelly Tolhurst Portrait
Kelly Tolhurst
This question was answered on 23rd June 2020

Payments on PSO routes are calculated using actual revenues each week, so final payments will depend on performance of both the freight and passenger market. Results for weeks to date are currently being assessed and final award values for those weeks are not yet known; details of the actual subsidy amounts paid will be published in due course.

The estimated values of the PSO Agreements at the point of contract award were published in the Official Journal of the European Union and were as follows:

Route

Operator

Estimated value at contract award

Portsmouth-Santander

Brittany Ferries

£1,508,265

Portsmouth-Cherbourg

Brittany Ferries

£1,042,551

Poole-Bilbao

Brittany Ferries

£370,395

Dover-Dunkerque

DFDS

£3,068,766

Dover-Calais

DFDS

£3,770,838

Folkestone-Coquelles

Eurotunnel

£3,431,863

Dover-Calais

P&O

£1,173,915

Cairnryan-Larne

P&O

£3,581,685

Tilbury-Zeebrugge

P&O

£2,053,206

Teesport-Europoort

P&O

£1,098,369

Hull-Europoort

P&O

£3,504,249 *

Hull-Zeebrugge

P&O

£1,842,210

Heysham-Warrenpoint

Seatruck

£849,159

Rotterdam-Killingholme

Stena

£2,018,547

Cairnryan-Belfast

Stena

£1,077,597

Harwich-Rotterdam

Stena

£1,822,365

Harwich-Hoek van Holland

Stena

£1,608,003

* The estimate for Hull-Europoort was later revised to £4,779,369.

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