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  Port of Ramsgate:
  
  Maximum vessel length
  
  No 1 - Ro-Ro 140 metres
  
  No 2 & 3 - Ro-Ro 180 metres
  
  Depth of water at IAT Main channel 7.5 metres - turning circle 6.2 metres
  
  Forget the GRT, what is important is maximum draft considering deadweight cargo + passengers on board on arrival at port.
  
  A port is only suitable for a regular ferry service if vessels deployed on that service can enter, turn and leave at all states of the tide in all loaded conditions. If vessels have to restrict the available loading due to tidal restrictions imposed by draft, then the ferry service schedule either becomes unreliable or operates sub-optimally (at less than economical capacity) and becomes a regular loss maker, followed not long after by bankruptcy.
  
  Of the below listed vessels, probably only the Malo Seaways and European Seaways would find Ramsgate suitable at all states of the tide in all loading conditions. However, the longer steaming ex Ramsgate would make both uneconomical to run into Calais ex Ramsgate and moving one or both from Dover to Ramsgate would collapse the existing Dover-Calais route for DFDS.
  
  Vessels deployed on short sea route to Calais currently ex Dover:
  
  Malo Seaways:
  IMO: 9215505
  MMSI: 228061800
  Call Sign: FISR
  Flag: France (FR)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 24206
  Deadweight: 4884 t
  Length × Breadth: 170.51m × 26m
  Year Built: 2000
  Current Draft 5.5m approx.
  
  Calais Seaways:
  IMO: 8908466
  MMSI: 228006800
  Call Sign: FGXF
  Flag: France (FR)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 28833
  Deadweight: 4286 t
  Length × Breadth: 163.61m × 27m
  Year Built: 1992
  Current Draft 6.3m approx.
  
  European Seaways
  IMO: 9007283
  MMSI: 232001040
  Call Sign: MPDG3
  Flag: United Kingdom (GB)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 22986
  Deadweight: 7432 t
  Length × Breadth: 169m × 27m
  Year Built: 1991
  Current Draft 5.6m
  
  Pride of Canterbury
  IMO: 9007295
  MMSI: 232001060
  Call Sign: MPQZ6
  Flag: United Kingdom (GB)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 30635
  Deadweight: 7509 t
  Length × Breadth: 180m × 28m
  Year Built: 1991
  Current Draft 6.4m approx.
  
  Spirit of France
  IMO: 9533816
  MMSI: 235082717
  Call Sign: 2DXD5
  Flag: United Kingdom (GB)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 47592
  Deadweight: 9884 t
  Length × Breadth: 212m × 31.4m
  Year Built: 2011
  Current Draft 6.5m approx.
  
  Spirit of Britain
  IMO: 9524231
  MMSI: 235082716
  Call Sign: 2DXD4
  Flag: United Kingdom (GB)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 47592
  Deadweight: 9500 t
  Length × Breadth: 212m × 31.4m
  Year Built: 2011
  Current Draft 6.5m approx.
  
  Pride of Kent
  IMO: 9015266
  MMSI: 233009000
  Call Sign: MQCJ2
  Flag: United Kingdom (GB)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 30635
  Deadweight: 7550 t
  Length × Breadth: 179.7m × 28.3m
  Year Built: 1992
  Current Draft 6.0m approx.
  
  Pride of Burgundy
  IMO: 9015254
  MMSI: 232001470
  Call Sign: MQSQ9
  Flag: United Kingdom (GB)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 28138
  Deadweight: 5812 t
  Length × Breadth: 179.7m × 28.3m
  Year Built: 1993
  Current Draft 6.0m approx.
  
  Rodin
  IMO: 9232527
  MMSI: 227022800
  Call Sign: FOBQ
  Flag: France (FR)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 33796
  Deadweight: 5700 t
  Length × Breadth: 185m × 27.7m
  Year Built: 2001
  Reported draft alongside 6.5m
  
  Berlioz
  IMO: 9305843
  MMSI: 228085000
  Call Sign: FMAB
  Flag: France (FR)
  AIS Type: Passenger
  Gross Tonnage: 31644
  Deadweight: 5700 t
  Length × Breadth: 186m × 27.7m
  Year Built: 2005
  Reported draft alongside 6.5m
  
  The other three vessels normally operated out of Dover, the Dover Seaways, Dunkirk Seaways and the Nord Pas De Calais, I haven't listed full details above. The Nord Pas De Calais is currently berthed alongside at Dunkirk with no indication when she is next to move and the other two are both continuously active on the Dover-Dunkirk route.

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