Channel ferries find calmer waters

15-Nov-2001

Travel-retail is not a homogeneous industry suffering from the burdens of a post-September 11 crisis. As our reports on the ferry market demonstrate, business on the UK to France cross-Channel routes is robust, despite the downturn in travel elsewhere. Isabelle Caprano assesses how the sector, hit so hard by abolition in 1999, is holding up today.

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Travel-retail is not a homogeneous industry suffering from the burdens of a post-September 11 crisis. As our reports on the ferry market demonstrate, business on the UK to France

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