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This meant the closure of the final route served by P&O Ferries in Portsmouth. [6] [7] In January 2019, P&O Ferries announced that its UK fleet would be reflagged from Dover, UK to Limassol, Cyprus in response to the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union in 2019 "For operational and accounting reasons".
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 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 ...
By 2000 Portsmouth only had ferries from Brittany Ferries, Condor and P&O. P&O replaced the ageing Super Vikings with a Ro-pax ship and a Sea-Cat on the Portsmouth-Cherbourg route, but by 2006 P&O had all but closed its operation from Portsmouth but retained the route to Bilbao and Portsmouth became a quiet port again.
In September 2010, Brittany Ferries announced plans to serve the Portsmouth–Bilbao route recently abandoned by P&O Ferries. [3] The route started on 27 March 2011. On 21 September 2012, Brittany Ferries cancelled sailings indefinitely following two days of wildcat strikes caused by crew members who were unhappy with changes in working terms ...
P&O (in full, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company [1]) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century. Formerly a public company, it was sold to DP World in March 2006 for £3.9 billion.
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 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.