‘I’m ashamed to be British’: P&O Ferries customers vent fury

Passengers report being left stranded as ferry operator sacks 800 crew with crossings suspended

Furious P&O Ferries customers have rounded on the company for leaving them stranded at short notice and for its abysmal" treatment of 800 staff, whose abrupt sacking on Thursday morning triggered chaos at ports across the country.

P&O initially told passengers that services were unable to run for the next few hours", affecting the Dover-Calais crossing and the routes from Hull to Rotterdam, Liverpool to Dublin and Cairnryan in Scotland to Larne.