A total of 133,000 passengers travelled between the Cotentin peninsula and the Channel Islands from 1 April to the end of September – a 30 per cent increase on last year.
97,000 of those passengers were French nationals.
Blighted for a number of years by technical problems, the subsidised sea link linking Jersey to Granville and Carteret appears to have finally sailed through the storm.
The French local council funding the service, the Conseil General de la Manche, has even commissioned a new vessel.
This will be specifically designed for the Channel Island and Norman ports it will serve.
Aurélie Leroy, who manages the Maison de la Normandie in Jersey, said: ‘The service is getting better and better and the Conseil want to attract even more passengers next year.
The next target is to reach 140,000 by the end of the low season, which ends next March.
If we reach this it will end a fantastic year for the ferry link.’
