New Ostend-Dover line planned
Former staff of the ferry company Hoverspeed have set up a new ferry company. The new company intends to sail fast ferry catamarans between the English port of Dover and three destinations in continental Europe.
Planned destinations include Calais and Boulogne in France and Ostend in Belgium.The first service should be operational in May.
Fast ferries between Dover and Ostend will probably only return next year.
The new shipping company is negotiating the purchase of two Seacat fast ferries. The catamarans were used by Hoverspeed that ended its Calais-Dover service last year.

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Six-legged lamb born in Belgium. A lamb with six legs, four in front and two at the back, has been born on a farm in Belgium, the news agency Belga reported on Sunday. The lamb cannot walk and has to be specially fed.
A veterinary surgeon who examined it was reported as saying he would consider amputating the two superfluous legs to give the animal a normal existence if it managed to survive beyond a week.