P&O Ferries has acted to meet strong demand in the English Channel ferry market and offer more choice to its customers by bringing a sixth ship back into service on the route, the company said in its press release.
The European Seaway - a 23,000 ton ship with the capacity to carry up to 120 freight vehicles - will return to the Dover-Calais route for the peak season from the beginning of August. It is expected to make eight sailings a day.
The European Seaway will supplement P&O Ferries' existing five ship fleet on Dover-Calais which makes up to 50 sailings a day.
From August, P&O Ferries will be making 58 sailings a day across the English Channel in total - more than any other ferry company.
P&O Ferries is a leading pan-European ferry operator, sailing on nine major routes between Britain, France, Ireland, Holland and Belgium. The company operates 20 vessels which carry more than 10 million passengers, 1.6 million cars and two million freight units every year.