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"No, the passage to Ramsgate is very different.  It routes around the north of the Goodwin Sands and has to cross the sandbanks on the Belgian side to get to the crossing of the Sandettie TSS.  The route to Dover runs primarily parallel to the sandbanks and comes out of them in the Rade de Dunkerque (just off Calais) from where the Dover Straits TSS is crossed to South Foreland.  Whilst in between the sandbanks the Dover route is still unbuoyed though.\n \n\n\n\tThinking about it, given that the skippers of the vessels that will be used for the new service are highly unlikely to be already in possession of Ostend PECs, it is almost certain that they will have to pick up a pilot for Ostend entry.  That means they will have to go via the Wandelaar pilot station at least initially.  In turn, that will detemine the route taken to be the longer one via the West Hinder TSS.  Given that, I'd be surprised if they will be able to sustain a crossing time of even 4 hours, let alone anything less.\n "
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