P&O Ferries advise passengers to avoid its services for the next few days

P&O has told its passengers not to use its services over the next few days unless it is essential to do so.

It has warned there will be “significant disruption” to its services as it makes changes to its staffing.

The company has reportedly sacked 800 staff and is replacing them with agency staff.

It has instructed all its vessels to stay in port and discharge passengers.

But the RMT union has advised all its members to stay on board and at least one vessel in Hull is reported to be staging a sit-in.

The company says anyone travelling on its Dover/Calais route should arrive at the port as booked and make their way to the DFDS check-in booths where alternative arrangements will be made.

Passengers on all other routes are encouraged to check https://twitter.com/POferriesupdate for the latest advice.

However it adds that if your journey is not essential you should not travel.

Along with Dover/Calais, P&O Ferries also sails between Hull and Rotterdam, Cairnryan and Larne and Liverpool and Dublin.

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PeterBaber

Peter Baber is Reviews Editor of both Practical Motorhome and Practical Caravan. He has been reviewing motorhomes for the best part of a decade now. His first caravan reviews date back to the early 1990s when he first worked on Practical Caravan, before he embarked on a 20-year career in business journalism which saw him edit a wide variety of magazines, and launch a few too, including one that won an award. Although he enjoyed that, he always knew he wanted to come back. Peter reports on all the new models that make it to dealer forecourts each season, giving his judgement online and in magazine reviews. He has twice been shortlisted for a Caravan Writers Guild award. When he is not working, apart from going on motorhome trips himself (mostly local to where he lives in West Yorkshire, but also last year right across France) he likes trying to write novels, cooking, throwing the odd pot, and has just taken up tennis.