Southampton is home base for a wide variety of cruise lines, offering everything from luxury to family and budget cruises. It’s the home port for British line P&O Cruises, while Cunard begins ...

The Port of Southampton has pledged to introduce shore power in 2020 A port has said it remains "on course" to be the first in the UK to introduce shore power for cruise ships. Associated British ...

For another successor year, the UK’s main cruise port, Southampton, officially Northern Europe's number one turnaround port, ...

Councils are being urged to save the Hythe Ferry by helping to fund the cost of a new £250,000 pontoon. Hythe councillor Malcolm Wade has written to Southampton City Council and two other local ...

It has been five months since the Hythe ferry last took passengers from the town into the city of Southampton. In August it was taken out of action because the boarding pontoon at Hythe ...

Ferry staff have begun a series of 24-hour strikes on crossings between Southampton and the Isle of Wight. Up to 120 Red Funnel staff have walked out in a row over pay, with more action expected ...

Southampton takes hundreds of people to keep it running, day in and day out. The cruise ship and ferry businesses are also the lifeblood of the port with large liners like the Queen Mary 2 and ...

Malo, Brittany Ferries new LNG-electric hybrid ship, arrived and left Portsmouth without subjecting the port city to the ...

Several Red Funnel ferry crossings - operating between Southampton and West Cowes - were cancelled in December due to staff shortages, with passengers being delayed getting to work and even ...

Red Falcon, the first of two new passenger/vehicle ferries for Red Funnel, has just been commissioned on the Southampton to Isle ... by Ferguson Shipbuilders, Port Glasgow. Propulsion is by ...