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.
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.