{"id":299355,"date":"2026-02-15T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299355\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:54:10","slug":"2025-a-record-year-for-spc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299355\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 a &#8216;record year&#8217; for SPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Sunday, 15 February 2026 06:02\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/273635-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Manx Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            More than 680,000 passengers were transported on its vessels\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company carried more than 680,000 passengers last year.<\/p>\n<p>It says 2025 was a record-breaking year.<\/p>\n<p>The figure&#8217;s said to represent an increase of more than 8 percent on the previous year&#8217;s tally.<\/p>\n<p>In total there were 2,144 sailings which saw the Steam Packet&#8217;s vessels travel more than 130,000 miles.<\/p>\n<p>The Company says it&#8217;s now looking to make 2026 even more successful, particularly as it makes further investment into services to and from Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also completed a public consultation on the building of a new vessel, which it&#8217;s hoped will join the fleet in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 15 February 2026 06:02 Picture credit: Manx Radio More than 680,000 passengers were transported on its vessels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,19531,61,60,19528,19529,19530,278,43,1342],"class_list":{"0":"post-299355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fun","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-isle-of-man","13":"tag-manx","14":"tag-manx-news","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-presenters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}