Sea
Condor Ferries operate services to Poole, Portsmouth and Weymouth in England, Cherbourg and St Malo in France, and to Jersey. Condor Ferries became the main operator to the UK following the closure of British Channel Island Ferries in 1994. Previously Sealink (and its railway ferries predecessors) had been the main operator for many decades.
HD Ferries operated ferries to Jersey, St Malo and Cherbourg from 2007 till 2009.
The French company Manche Îles Express operates a summer passenger-only ferry service between Guernsey and three small ports in Normandy, France: Barneville-Carteret, Diélette and Granville. Not every port is served daily.
The Isle of Sark Shipping Company operates small ferries to Sark. The service takes 45 minutes for the 9-mile crossing.
- External links
- Condor Ferries
- HD Ferries
- Manches Îles Express
- Isle of Sark Shipping Company
- Guernsey Harbours Authority
Read more about this topic: Transport In Guernsey
Famous quotes containing the word sea:
“The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;—”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“The sea curling,
Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still
As at first it was, is the hand no yet contented
Of the Creator. And he waits for the world to begin.”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 107:23-4.