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P&O European Ferries (formerly Townsend Thoresen), a division of P&O Ferries, was a ferry company which operated in the English Channel from 1987 after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, when Townsend Thoresen was renamed P&O European Ferries, until 1999 when the Portsmouth Operations became P&O Portsmouth and the Dover Operations were merged with Stena Line AB to make P&O Stena Line.
P&O Ferries is a British shipping company that operates ferries from United Kingdom to Northern Ireland, and to Continental Europe (France, Belgium and the Netherlands). The company was created in 2002 through mergers and acquisitions within P&O.
Sold to Transeuropa Ferries: 7708778 European Trader: 2008 2012 17,068 12 Teesport-Rotterdam Scrapped 7636092 European Mariner (2001–2011) European Highlander (1998–2001) Lion (1995–1998) 1995 2011 5,897 12 Troon-Larne Scrapped 2011 7613404 Thomas Wehr : 1994 1999 7,628 12 Portsmouth-Le Havre Returned to owner 7528661 European Diplomat ...
A P&O Ferries vessel which went adrift in the Irish Sea has been cleared to sail again. European Causeway lost power for more than an hour while sailing from Cairnryan in southern Scotland to ...
P&O Ferries suspended most of its operations after it replaced 786 crew members with cheaper agency workers on March 17. ... European Causeway, resulting in it being detained on March 25.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's P&O Ferries made 800 staff redundant with immediate effect and suspended crossings for the next few days, sparking a backlash from politicians and unions over reports ...
In 1975, P&O established Pandoro for operation of the company's Irish Sea RO-RO routes. Pandoro was an acronym for P and O Ro. In 1998 P&O European Ferries (Irish Sea) Ltd was formed by the internal merger of Pandoro Ltd. and P&O European (Felixstowe) Ltd., to run the Irish Sea routes.
During 2006, P&O's ferry and port operations were taken over by DP World. In 2010, P&O Irish Sea, which had been run from the parent company's offices in Dover since the withdrawal from Fleetwood in 2004, was rebranded as part of P&O Ferries. [5] Officially the company name remains as P&O European Ferries (Irish Sea) Ltd, however. [2]