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Article: Customers' shock as Portsmouth - Bilbao sailings axed.
- Article from:
- The News (Portsmouth, England)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2007
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PASSENGERS booked on a new Spanish ferry route have been left high and dry after the owners today cancelled all sailings until April.
Acciona Trasmediterranea (AT), which runs a freight and passenger service from Portsmouth to Bilbao, is diverting its ship, the Fortuny, to another one of its routes in the Mediterranean.
The company stressed it wasn't pulling out of Portsmouth and that the cancellations were due to 'operational reasons'.
The announcement still came as a shock, however.
Port manager Martin Putman said: 'It's unfortunate they didn't let us know early and for the customers who booked in the intervening period.'
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