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Irish Ferries Ltd.

ADDRESS
Irish Ferries, P.O. Box 19
Alexandra Road, Dublin 1

TELEPHONE
01 607 5700

WEBSITE
www.irishferries.com

Company Profile

Irish Ferries is a marine transport operator. As part of Irish Continental
Group PLC, the company operates a multi-purpose ferry fleet on the Dublin-
Holyhead, Rosslare-Pembroke, Dover-Calais and Dublin-Cherbourg routes.
Its core businesses are passenger and freight transportation.
The passenger services consist of motor, coach and foot passengers
travelling to and from Ireland the UK and France. The main reasons for
these journeys are holidays and business. In 2023 the company carried
2.782 million passengers.
Irish Ferries operate galleys on all their services and are significant players
in the foodservice market. The fleet is summarised below:

Motor Vessel (MV) W.B Yeats operates the Dublin to Cherbourg route during
the summer and Dublin to Holyhead route in the winter. It is the largest
ship to sail the Irish Sea. The new cruise ferry can accommodate 1,885
passengers and crew, with 435 cabins and capacity for 2,800 lane metres
of freight (165 freight vehicles), plus an additional dedicated car deck with
capacity for 300 passenger cars. This ship operates one overnight crossing
per day.
MV Ulysses serves the Dublin to Holyhead route and caters for up to
1,900 passengers per single trip. When it was first introduced, it was the
largest passenger ferry in the world, as a result of its large vehicle carrying
capacity. This ship operates four crossings per day.

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