P&O Ferries: Coronavirus

(asked on 13th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with DP World, owners of P&O Ferries Ltd on (a) furlough support for the wages of 1,400 P&O staff in the UK and (b) the proposal for 1,100 redundancies amongst P&O’s UK seafarers and other maritime staff in Dover and Hull.


Answered by
Kelly Tolhurst Portrait
Kelly Tolhurst
This question was answered on 22nd May 2020

The Department’s officials and I have been working closely with operators across the maritime sector including P&O Ferries, to understand the impacts and challenges they face from the global COVID-19 crisis. The Department recognises the contribution UK seafarers make to the economy and we remain committed to supporting them. On 24 April we announced a package of support to maintain services on critical freight routes between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and between Great Britain and mainland Europe.

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