P&O Ferries has suspended services this weekend and told customers to book with another operator despite announcing they were set to resume. Making an announcement on the Twitter account P&O Updates, they said: "All P&O Ferries Passenger Services are suspended this weekend.
"For travel 8/9/10th April please re-book directly with another operator before arriving at the port." The ferry operator had suspended services since March after firing 800 staff in a move that shocked the world, the Mirror reports.
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Only on Thursday, it was announced they were ready to start running services this weekend. But on Friday, April 8 they have announced in an update online that they are already cancelled.
The announcement will undoubtedly worsen the logjam on the M20 in which Operation Brock has been instigated. On Friday, which is the eighth day of travel disruption in Kent, there is a massive queue of traffic waiting to get into the Port of Dover.
Rival DFDS has warned of delays of up two hours on its services from Dover to Calais and that it is not accepting P&O customers. Chris Parker, DFDS director, said it was running ferries as "fast as we can".
The ferry operator has more than 40,000 passengers booked on its services from Dover this weekend, a 50% increase on last weekend. There is an anticipated 30,000,000 expected to hit the roads ahead of the Easter holidays.
Around 13.6million are expected on Good Friday alone.
