Plymouth-headquartered Brittany Ferries is reassuring passengers that problems facing loss-making cross-channel rival P&O Ferries will have no impact on its operation and it is ploughing ahead with plans to bring every ship back into service and re-open all its routes this summer.
P&O Ferries has suspended sailings “for the next few days” after having fired at least 800 workers. The ferry operator said in an internal statement it will make “a major announcement” which will “secure the long-term viability of P&O Ferries”. Union bosses fear the company is looking to make workers redundant and replace them with “foreign labour”.
In Plymouth, UK HQ of French-owned Brittany Ferries, management moved swiftly to reassure passengers that an issue affecting a completely different firm would have no impact on its sailings.
