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Calais
The Port of Calais is situated in the départment Pas de Calais on the North Coast of France facing across the Channel toward Dover. It has all available modern facilities designed for the reception of large traditional vessels, the loading and unloading of bulk cargo and diversified merchandise and being able to handle the 60 return car ferry services that are handled each day. Calais has maintained its position as a premier port in mainland Europe for tourist and freight traffic and both continue to show a year on year increase. Calais Port has maintained its market share of freight traffic over the Channel Tunnel at over 50 per cent. Passenger carryings on services operated from Dover by P&O Ferries, Seafrance and Hoverspeed have continued to increase and have led to the decision by the port operator, Calais Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to start building a second double ramp berth to handle the new generation of superferries like the Seafrance Rodin, a 32,000 tones multi-purpose ferry introduced in 2002 and P&O Ferries recent conversion of two freight ships into 2,000 passenger capacity multi purpose ships.
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