SEATRUCK 25 YEARS SAILING ON THE IRISH SEA

The Irish Sea freight ferry operator Seatruck, with its eight-strong fleet of purpose-built ro-ro vessels, celebrates 25 years of operations this year. Since its founding, with a single vessel on the Heysham-Warrenpoint route in April 1996, Seatruck has grown from a fledgling operator to the market leader for unaccompanied freight on the Irish Sea. The company continues to focus on the three principles on which it was founded: unaccompanied freight, minimising mileage for hauliers, and keeping overheads low.

Today, Seatruck offers up to 66 sailings a week on three freight ferry routes: Liverpool-Dublin, Heysham-Dublin and Heysham-Warrenpoint, shipping 6,500 freight units a week. The Seatruck fleet comprises four FSG class ro-ro vessels built in Flensburg, Germany in 2011 and 2012, and four P class ro-ro vessels, built in Huelva and Seville, Spain in 2008 and 2009. Six vessels are currently operated directly by Seatruck and two are chartered out.

Originally an independent company, Seatruck was acquired by Crescent PLC in 1998 and passed to its current Danish owners, the Clipper Group, in 2002, when they took over Crescent. Seatruck was established in 1996 by a group of former Merchant Ferries managers together with investors to meet