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Wightlink to build new ship and upgrade ports
Wightlink is to build a new ship and improve ports on its Portsmouth-Fishbourne route as part of a £45 million investment.
The ferry operator said the project is the biggest ever single investment in services.
It comes after the introduction of new ferries on its Lymington-Yarmouth and Portsmouth Harbour-Ryde Pier Head routes.
In the next phase, Wightlink will build a new ship, which it claims will be the most environmentally friendly ferry ever to sail across the Solent.
It will also extend its current flagship St Clare to carry more vehicles and will build a new terminal building at Portsmouth Gunwharf.
It expects the port improvements to be finished by summer 2017 and the new ship to arrive in spring 2018.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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