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P&O Portsmouth was run until 2002, when it was then renamed P&O Ferries and brought under the same management and ownership as P&O on the English Channel which occurred after P&O bought Stena Line 40% share in P&O Stena Line. The operations from Portsmouth remained largely unchanged except from a simple livery change during the 2002-2003 round ...
P&O's Portsmouth operations began with their acquisition of Normandy Ferries' Portsmouth-Le Havre route, branding it as P&O Normandy Ferries and offering a twice-daily service, initially competing with both Brittany Ferries and Townsend Thoresen. In 1985, P&O sold its ferry operations to European Ferries before returning to the market in 1987 ...
Portsmouth-Cherbourg Sold to Fred. Olsen. Scrapped in 2011 7358298 Pride of Cherbourg A (2002) Pride of Cherbourg 2 (1994–2002) Pride of Le Havre 1 (1989–1994) Viking Valiant E (1987–1989) 1987 2002 14,760 1,316 Portsmouth-Cherbourg Portsmouth-Le Havre Sold to El Salam Maritime. Scrapped in 2010 7358286 Pride of Hampshire (1989–2002)
When P&O Ferries announced its decision to replace its crews with cheaper agency workers, it stated that the business needed to cut costs to survive as it was losing £100 million a year.
P&O operates ferries under the brand P&O Ferries with operations in the following areas: In the English Channel between Dover and Calais, In the North Sea principly between Hull and Rotterdam with additional freight services also serving Tilbury, Teesport and Zeebrugge, and; On the Irish Sea between Cairnryan and Larne.
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 ...
When these were completed, P&O transferred the two to the Portsmouth to Le Havre route on 22 June 1994. [2] This service continued largely unchanged until 2005. [11] On 28 September 2004 P&O Ferries announced plans to charter Pride of Portsmouth and her sister Pride of Le Havre to Brittany Ferries.
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.