[ 12 ] THE SHIP OF THE FUTURE With the introduction of P&O Pioneer and P&O Liberté, P&O Ferries has cemented its leading position on the Dover–Calais route for many years to come. This is the story of how this truly outstanding newbuilding project came about. Double-ender or single-ender? — that was the question. Although a doubleender design had already been on the table of Channel House, P&O Ferries’ Dover headquarters, in the early 2000s, the doubleender solution only emerged again when Denmark’s naval architecture consultancy, OSK Design, got involved in our Ship of the Future project. The 2017 edition of Nor-Shipping, a biennial international shipping exhibition and conference, marked the unofficial kickoff of what would eventually become the truly unique Ship of the Future project. Totto Hartmann from our brokers, Clarksons Platou, acted as the door opener to shipyards visiting and exhibiting at Nor-Shipping. “ With their impressive intake of 2,741 freight lanemetres plus 1,000 car lanemetres on a separate 3.3-metrehigh upper car deck, the Spirit-class represented a quantum jump compared with the ships they replaced” THE SHIP OF THE FUTURE By Ross Barrett
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