Tag: P&O Ferries

P&O Ferries cut its carbon footprint by 85,000 tons, or 9%, leveraging new partnerships to sail less frequently and maximise the efficiency of its operations.

UK canceled a contract with P&O Ferries "with immediate effect" in its latest action against the DP World-owned company after its decision to cut hundreds of staff earlier this year.

A number of unions and global union federations have written to the International Labour Organization asking it to urgently intervene on behalf of the 800 seafarers who were illegally fired and cruelly mistreated by P&O Ferries.

The UK government will outline plans to bring forward legislation intending to extend coverage of the national minimum wage to seafarers operating in UK waters.

On May 3rd, the P&O Ferries vessel "Pride of Kent" failed another Port State Control (PSC) reinspection, according to the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).

The "European Causeway", a ferry operated by P&O Ferries, was sailing from Scotland to Northern Ireland when it lost power off the County Antrim coast. 

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) gave clearance to the "Spirit of Britain", a P&O Ferries vessel, to resume its services, after it was detained on April 11th. 

Officials at the Port of Dover refused access to ITF Inspectors who were present in order to investigate welfare issues that had been raised by replacement crew members on board P&O Ferries’ vessels in the port.

According to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), another P&O Ferries vessel has been detained after inspectors found a "number of deficiencies".

The Insolvency Service has 'initiated both formal criminal and civil investigations' into the circumstances of the redundancies made by P&O Ferries.