Stena Line has chartered the Ben-my-Chree to provide a freight only service to Ireland in the run up to Christmas.
The company’s Holyhead service will be out of action until the middle of January.
The Ben has been added to the company’s website as operating its freight service between Heysham and Dublin.
As reported by news.cision, the Ben will add up to 850m of freight relief for Stena Line as it struggles to work round the closure of Holyhead.
Johan Edelman, Stena Line’s Irish Sea Trade Director said: “The unprecedented closure of Holyhead Port in the run up to Christmas has caused major upheaval in freight flows between Ireland and Britain.
“Our priority in the coming days will be to mitigate as much as we can by trying to secure as much additional capacity as possible throughout our Irish Sea network.
“High levels of pre-Christmas bookings have made this a very challenging operation, but we are working around the clock to examine every conceivable opportunity.
“I can confirm that our operational teams have now been able to establish a new temporary freight only ferry route between Dublin-Heysham which will launch on Tuesday December 17 providing one round trip per day.”
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