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P&O resumes corpulent Cairnryan

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Apr 25, 2022
P&O resumes corpulent Cairnryan

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Portray caption, The European Highlander runs between Cairnryan in Dumfries and Galloway and Larne in County Antrim

P&O Ferries says it has resumed a corpulent provider between Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Cairnryan – Larne sailings were disrupted for several weeks after the company sacked 800 workers remaining month.

It ended in protests and warnings from unions that they would perchance well perchance also try and blockade Cairnryan and persuade potentialities to boycott the company.

The ferry company published the return to customary sailings in a tweet to potentialities on Sunday morning.

Workers were knowledgeable they were losing their jobs with rapid develop in a pre-recorded video message on 17 March.

It ended in the rapid cancellation of services on many P&O routes. A partial provider began running between Cairnryan and Larne on 11 April.

P&O planned to replace the workers with cheaper agency workers, with bosses says it would no longer be a viable industry with out the adjustments.

Senior administration at the agency came in for entertaining criticism for the switch, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson amongst those calling for the resignation of P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite.

He admitted to MPs that he broke the law by no longer consulting workers nonetheless talked about he would create the same again if he needed to.

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Portray caption, Protestors gathered exterior the P&O Ferries terminal at Cairnryan following the sackings

Two vessels are ancient on a traditional basis on the route – the European Highlander and the European Causeway.

The European Causeway used to be detained for two weeks over safety concerns following an inspection by the Maritime and Coastguard Company (MCA).

When inspectors examined the European Highlander remaining week, they stumbled on a “exiguous collection of deficiencies” which needed to be build correct prior to it could perchance perchance well also advance wait on into provider.

On Sunday, the MCA talked about: “The prominent deficiencies on the European Highlander enjoy now been rectified and vessel is free to utterly resume provider.”

Every ferries were working on the route on Sunday, in accordance to records on the VesselFinder internet region.

BBC Scotland has contacted P&O Ferries for disclose.

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