Services suspended for days and protests expected against P&O Ferries

Services were suspended and a series of demonstrations were expected to take place against P&O’s ‘appalling’ decision to sack 800 seafarers (Danny Lawson/PA)

Services were suspended and a series of demonstrations were expected to take place against P&O’s “appalling” decision to sack 800 seafarers.

Unions and politicians condemned the mass dismissal, blamed by the company on losses of £100 million following the slump in travel because of the pandemic.