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In 2006, the P&O Group, including P&O Ferries was sold to Dubai-based DP World. Shortly afterwards it was taken over by Dubai World. [5] On 15 January 2010, P&O Ferries announced that it would be closing the Portsmouth–Bilbao route by the end of September to coincide with the end of its existing charter for Pride of Bilbao. This meant the ...
P&O began operating ferry services in the 1960s. In 2002, the company amalgamated their various ferry lines into one company, P&O Ferries. [3] By 2020, P&O Ferries had become a leading UK ferry operator with business worth around £10 million per annum, with a 15% share of maritime freight transport before the pandemic. [4]
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MV P&O Pioneer is a roll-on/roll-off cross-channel hybrid ferry operated by P&O Ferries.She is the first of her class ordered by P&O Ferries to replace the ageing Pride of Kent, with her sister P&O Liberte [2] due to follow in early 2024 to replace the ageing Pride of Canterbury and also Spirit of Britain in 2024 which has been chartered to Irish ferries.
This list of passenger ship companies is of companies that own and operate passenger ships, including cruise ships, cargo-passenger ships, and ferries (for passengers and automobiles). For the list of companies that own and operate freight ships ( bulk carriers , car carriers , container ships , roll-on/roll-off (for freight), and tankers ...
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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]
The ship was launched as MS Norbank in 1993 and was delivered by October 1993 to Nordzee Verdi Stone BV, the Netherlands and started operating between Hull and Rotterdam for North Sea Ferries. She was chartered to P&O Group in January 1997 and remained on the Rotterdam route where she then transferred to the Felixstowe to Rotterdam route ...