P&O Ferries crew members are refusing to leave the ships after 800 seafarers were fired by the company as a spokesman announced it is “not a viable business” in its current state. The firm said it has suspended sailings “for the next few days”.
Workers currently onboard ships were instructed by unions not to leave. Coaches carrying agency workers hired to replace them are parked near ships at ports.
Hull Labour MP Karl Turner posted a photograph of a coach, which he stated contained "new foreign crew waiting to board the Pride of Hull" at the city's King George Dock. RMT members are "sitting in onboard the vessel", so the new crew "will not be boarding her", he wrote.
