Whats going on with P & O Today, all ships returning to port

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P & O have suspended all sailing for a few hours today awaiting an annoucement and asked all ships to return to port and discharge passengers onto Eurotunnel, dfds, Irish ferries.

P&O Ferries (@POferries) Tweeted: Regretfully, P&O Ferries services are unable to run for the next few hours. Our Port Teams will guide you and travel will be arranged via an alternative operator.

We apologise for the inconvenience this will have on your journey plans.



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Buy out??? Bankruptcy??
 
Well I bet that decision wasn't made overnight, but they're quite happy to disrupt (not the word I was wanting to use !) their customers at such short notice ? :mad:

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Sacked all their staff and Instated foreign agency workers 😮
 
So! After that announcement, how long before they resume services ? They must have a plan to minimise disruption and I guess Permanente staff are let go over time so replacement staff can be trained and replaced without disruption. I thought P&O were French but clearly not as this would not bee allowed to happen, must be be a UK company.
 
PhilandMena said:
So! After that announcement, how long before they resume services ? They must have a plan to minimise disruption and I guess Permanente staff are let go over time so replacement staff can be trained and replaced without disruption. I thought P&O were French but clearly not as this would not bee allowed to happen, must be be a UK company.
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Their major shareholder is DP World, a Dubai based Government (UAE) owned company.
Major rumour on Twitter is that PO are making all ship based employees redundant and replacing them with offshore based agency staff. Sounds like a court case in them making.

I'll continue to use Stenaline.

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How will agency staff be cheaper?
 
Gizmouk said:
Their major shareholder is DP World, a Dubai based Government (UAE) owned company.
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R4 One o'clock News............DP made 8 billion profit last year. P&O lost a million.
(Can't remember in which currency but it's hardly relevant).

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Spriddler said:
R4 One o'clock News............DP made 8 billion profit last year. P&O lost a million.
(Can't remember in which currency but it's hardly relevant).
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The biggest proportion of their profits comes from ports \ terminals including Southampton and London Gateway.
 
Spriddler said:
P&O lost a million.
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x100 per year

"In its current state, P&O Ferries is not a viable business. We have made a £100m loss year on year, which has been covered by our parent DP World. This is not sustainable. Without these changes there is no future for P&O Ferries."
Source: BBC News
 

‘Difficult decision’: P&O blames 800 seafarer sackings on unsustainable losses​

DP World company says it has been making $131m losses year on year
17 March 2022 14:24 GMT UPDATED 17 March 2022 14:38 GMT
By Gary Dixon in London

P&O Ferries has confirmed it is sacking 800 UK seafarers with immediate effect.
The company ordered all its ships into UK ports on Thursday in an attempt to replace UK crews with cheaper foreign agency workers.
P&O, which was affected by pandemic lockdowns, said it remains committed to serving its vital routes to Europe.
“However, in its current state, P&O Ferries is not a viable business,” it said.
It pointed to year-on-year losses of £100m ($131m), which have been covered by Dubai Ports and shipping parent DP World.
“This is not sustainable. Our survival is dependent on making swift and significant changes now. Without these changes there is no future for P&O Ferries,” it added.

The company called the decision difficult but necessary.
The move was made only after “seriously considering all the available options”.
The shipping company said it is now starting a process of serving immediate severance notices to crews.
But P&O will also be compensating them for this lack of advance notice with “enhanced compensation packages”.

Future viability secured?​

“In making this tough decision, we are securing the future viability of our business which employs an additional 2,200 people and supports billions in trade in and out of the UK,” the shipowner said.
“And we are ensuring that we can continue serving our customers in a way that they have demanded from us for many years,” the company added.
P&O Ferries has been operating without needing to make repayments on £120m of loans for the past two years, according to the parent company’s financial filings.
But the grace period granted by banks expires this month.
Unions have called the redundancies a “betrayal” of British crew members.

Unions cry ‘betrayal’ as redundant crews refuse to leave P&O ferries
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Hull MP Karl Turner published a photo on Twitter of what he said were vehicles containing foreign agency workers waiting to board the 1,376-passenger Pride of Hull (built 2001) at the King George Dock in the port.
But RMT and Nautilus International union members, both officers and ratings, are refusing to leave.
Turner said: “They will not be boarding her.”
“I’m hearing that the captain of the Pride of Hull will refuse to allow the police to board the vessel if P&O Ferries ask them to do so,” the MP added.

Time to step back?​

The Unite union has called on P&O to step back from the "savage" sackings and work to save UK jobs.
Unite said the decision has sent shockwaves around UK shipping, bringing key ports to a standstill and plunging the ferry service into chaos.
Unite’s 160 members at P&O are not among those to lose their jobs, but the move is causing widespread unease and insecurity amongst members, the union added.
General secretary Sharon Graham said: “This is a shocking move from P&O that should not be tolerated. Unite sends its solidarity to the seafaring crew, whose service as key workers during the pandemic has quickly been forgotten by P&O."
“We offer you our support as you seek to defend your jobs. It is a disgrace that any employer in the UK is able to treat its workers in this way.”
Bobby Morton, Unite’s national officer for docks and the maritime industry, described P&O as a "last redoubt" in a cut-throat sector, employing UK workers on UK contracts.
"This move today sends a very concerning signal that these standards are now under attack," he said.
 
The crews are being replaced with Polish and Georgian agency staff.
Sustainability reduced salaries and benefits. 14 days aboard instead of 7 days 7 off
Well people voted for Singapore on Thames, soon many will find out what that really means.
Watch and research the NHS units being sold off, GP surgeries to USA health companies.
Where were the last slave auctions held? Might be a good investment.

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Clipgate said:
The crews are being replaced with Polish and Georgian agency staff.
Sustainability reduced salaries and benefits. 14 days aboard instead of 7 days 7 off
Well people voted for Singapore on Thames, soon many will find out what that really means.
Watch and research the NHS units being sold off, GP surgeries to USA health companies.
Where were the last slave auctions held? Might be a good investment.
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I read Colombian on BBC news
 
Clipgate said:
The crews are being replaced with Polish and Georgian agency staff.
Sustainability reduced salaries and benefits. 14 days aboard instead of 7 days 7 off
Well people voted for Singapore on Thames, soon many will find out what that really means.
Watch and research the NHS units being sold off, GP surgeries to USA health companies.
Where were the last slave auctions held? Might be a good investment.
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Very little to do with leaving the EU. Much more to do with lack of travel/passengers due to COVID.
 
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Protests over P&O job cuts

Protesters have taken to the streets over P&O Ferries' shock decision to axe hundreds of jobs – and they've vowed to return tomorrow.
www.kentonline.co.uk www.kentonline.co.uk

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Clipgate said:
The crews are being replaced with Polish and Georgian agency staff.
Sustainability reduced salaries and benefits. 14 days aboard instead of 7 days 7 off
Well people voted for Singapore on Thames, soon many will find out what that really means.
Watch and research the NHS units being sold off, GP surgeries to USA health companies.
Where were the last slave auctions held? Might be a good investment.
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"P&O, which was affected by pandemic lockdowns,"

You cant lock countries down and ban travel and not expect consequences. There will be more casualties yet. ET is only surviving on subsidies. They re running virtually empty.
 
Maybe they'll take a leaf out of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 ? :unsure:
 
It's just unbelievable that something as strategically important as an efficient and frequent transport link to our major markets can be left in the hands of a foreign country. I guess the owners (P&O "So good we bought it twice") are hoping that the situation in Ukraine will keep it out of the news . . .

Still, I'm alright because I wouldn't use P&O unless I had to and have no inclination to ever visit Dubai. Feel sorry for 800 workers who have been summarily dismissed (didn't think it was legal but obviously there's a loophole) and wish the news feeds would stop referring to them as being made redundant, which clearly they haven't been. With nothing to lose, I hope they sit in and tie up P&O for days to come . . . .
 
Jamesh said:
Buy out??? Bankruptcy??
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It wouldn't surprise me if there is an administration on the way. Possibly dumping all the employment contracts and other liabilities and a buy-back of assets with a 'newco' freed of the liabilities.

Apparently, this is a leaked office memo:

If true, appalling. All those P&O jobs!

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