P&O have Peed & Offed

[wiggydiggy]

Please can we stick to the travel/touring implications here? The political stuff can be posted on https://naca.cyclechat.net/threads/p-o.210/

I'll step away no problem. Maybe someone can mod edit the post title to say 'travel implications of p+o developments' or something like that. Hope yours and anyone else's plans still go ok👍

 

[Brandane]

Please can we stick to the travel/touring implications here? The political stuff can be posted on https://naca.cyclechat.net/threads/p-o.210/

But the travel and touring implications are "news". And we aren't allowed to discuss that either! (NACA = NEWS and current affairs).

 

[Rusty Nails]

I've no idea what sort of contracts will be in place, but I think the port of registry IS an important factor. The port of registry effectively makes the ship a part of the country of registration's territory. Same as an aircraft sitting in a foreign airport.
One of my trips to sea was a tanker, registered in the UK and owned by P&O. We spent the whole 6 months carrying refined petrol and diesel up and down the west coast of Mexico, on contract to PEMEX (Mexican petroleum company).
So despite working for a Mexican company, in Mexican waters, we were paid in the UK and because the ship was registered in UK, we were subject to UK rules and regulations. Our officers were British, the crew Indian (cost cutting even 40+ years ago).
I would imagine the officers and crews on P&O ferries will be similar. They work for a Dubai based company (the name P&O still being used is for marketing and image only, nothing to do with the previous London based company). The ships are registered in Cyprus or Bahamas, so no real connection with the UK other than some of the ports they sail to and from.
A lot is being made about the number of British jobs being lost, but any time I have been on a P&O ferry in the last 20 years, it has been crewed by a league of nations. It will be a very complicated set up when it comes to contracts.

Just noticed that P&O Ferries Ltd is a company registered in Dover on Companies House, as are many other related companies.
Sorting the arguments about this out will be a big payday for employment lawyers.

 

[Illaveago]

I was just thinking ! It would be good if it went to court and half way through P&O replaced their lawyers by agency ones !

 

[mjr]

But the travel and touring implications are "news". And we aren't allowed to discuss that either! (NACA = NEWS and current affairs).

Shaun was quite clear that news affecting cycling is still OK, which is just as well else the Advocacy and Pro Racing forums would be gutted. News about the price of fish (especially dead fish, buried, liquefied, extracted, refined and burned to propel heavy metal) is not.