Report: Sergio Garcia won’t resign DP World Tour membership after LIV Golf move to hold out for Ryder Cup The European Ryder Cup legend is holding out hope for a historic appearance in 2023. USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 25, 2022
PGA Tour and DP World Tour step up efforts to thwart LIV Golf Both tours have been desperate to stem the tide of players who have been lured by the riches offered by the Saudi Arabia-backed series The Independent UK · Jun 29, 2022
Int’l Companies Race over Investment, Partnership Deals for Saudi Ports The Saudi Minister of Transport and Logistic Services and Chairman of the Board of Saudi Ports Authority Saleh Al-Jasser revealed that work is underway on several partnerships with the private sector to operate stations and marine services in Saudi ports. Al-Jasser added that international transport line and container operators are… Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 20, 2022
Eyes on Scottish Open as DP World Tour weighs up LIV Golf response DP World Tour is expected to prevent LIV Golf players such as Phil Mickelson from playing the Scottish Open in July The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2022
DP World, CDPQ Announce $5 Bn Investment in Strategic Assets in the UAE DP World announced it was selling a minority share to CDPQ, a global investment group, in three of DP World's flagship UAE assets. CDPQ will invest $2.5 billion in the Jebel Ali Port, the Jebel Ali Free Zone, and the National Industries Park through a new joint venture in which… Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 7, 2022
Dustin Johnson hopes for Ryder Cup rethink after calling time on PGA Tour Johnson sacrifices Ryder Cup over participation in $25m inaugural LIV Golf event in Hertfordshire this week The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2022
Canada fund invests $5 billion in DP World's Dubai home base International port operator DP World says it sold a stake in its home base, the Jebel Ali Port, and other flagship assets to one of Canada’s largest pension funds for $5 billion The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2022
UK scraps major P&O Ferries contract after firm laid off hundreds of staff The government has cancelled a contract with P&O Ferries after the firm used a video call to sack 800 members of staff, some who had worked for the company all their lives Daily Mirror · May 31, 2022
TUC chief calls for directors of P&O Ferries to be disqualified Francis O’Grady writes to Insolvency Service, which is investigating the sacking of almost 800 crew The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2022
Fury as P&O Dutch staff get 5% pay rise weeks after firm sacked 800 UK workers More than 100 employees of the firm in the Netherlands will receive a 5% pay rise despite the company claiming it had been forced to replace UK seafarers with agency staff as it had no money Daily Mirror · May 14, 2022
Saudi-backed breakaway series now faces mutiny from DP World Tour as well as PGA Tour Both the PGA and DP World Tour have blocked applications from players who requested to be released to take part in next month’s inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event Daily Mirror · May 11, 2022
Hyperloop: 9 years later, Elon Musk's biggest pipe dream may finally come true In a tweet posted in April 2022, Musk revealed that tunneling firm The Boring Company would “attempt to build a working Hyperloop." Can Musk's idea be made to work? Inverse · May 6, 2022
Breakaway league sets golfers on collision course with DP World Tour Members of the DP World Tour who play in June’s $25m Saudi Arabian-backed event in Hertfordshire are likely to face penalties but Phil Mickelson could return to action The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2022
Unions call for P&O Ferries boycott for allegedly paying below minimum wage RMT says workers were paid £4.35 an hour, while P&O blames ‘administrative misunderstanding’ The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2022
Glasgow Live · Apr 11, 2022 P&O Ferries resumes passenger sailings between Scotland and Northern Ireland P&O Ferries posted on Twitter today than it had resumed a three-services-per-day schedule for passengers and freight. The operator told had travellers on Sunday that "tourist travel" would not restart until Thursday.
The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2022 P&O Ferries resumes Scotland-Northern Ireland sailings The European Causeway vessel used on the route between Cairnryan and Larne was released from detention on Friday.
Daily Record · Apr 8, 2022 Dumfries and Galloway Council boots P&O off green freeport bid Councillors backed a motion to exclude the firm after it sacked 800 workers
The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2022 P&O Ferries owner DP World loses status as partner in Solent freeport Exclusive: ministers confirm Emirati logistics giant no longer has central role after anger at sacking of 800 workers
The Independent UK · Apr 1, 2022 Anger as parent firm of P&O Ferries handed £550m of UK aid cash despite mass sackings MPs attack ‘inappropriate’ use of cash given to ‘disreputable employer’ – but aid chiefs refuse to back down
The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022 P&O Ferries has ‘got away with it’, say unions as Shapps backtracks on action Two-week battle to hold company to account for sacking of 786 crew members appears to end with a whimper
Daily Record · Mar 31, 2022 Dumfries and Galloway Council set to throw P&O off Cairnryan green freeport bid Council leader Elaine Murray and depute Rob Davidson will propose the move at Thursday' full council meeting
Daily Record · Mar 30, 2022 Grant Shapps unveils plans to make P&O Ferries 'fundamentally rethink' sackings These include plans to create "minimum wage corridors" on ferry routes between the UK and other countries.
Daily Mirror · Mar 30, 2022 P&O Ferries: Ports to be handed powers to stop boats docking that don't pay crew minimum wage Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was a warning to P&O Ferries, after the firm's no-notice sackings of 800 staff, that "the game is up" - but unions are unimpressed
The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2022 Sainsbury’s will do well to take the low-pay pressure seriously It’s hard to see why the supermarkets have resisted real living wage accreditation for so long
The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2022 P&O must be stripped of licence to operate and its boss struck off, senior MPs tell Grant Shapps Pressure on transport secretary to get tougher with rogue firm after questions raised over his ‘block’ on redundancies