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DP World, CDPQ Announce $5 Bn Investment in Strategic Assets in the UAE

DP World announced it was selling a minority share to CDPQ, a global investment group, in three of DP World's flagship UAE assets. CDPQ will invest $2.5 billion in the Jebel Ali Port, the Jebel Ali Free Zone, and the National Industries Park through a new joint venture in which…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Dustin Johnson hopes for Ryder Cup rethink after calling time on PGA Tour

Johnson sacrifices Ryder Cup over participation in $25m inaugural LIV Golf event in Hertfordshire this week

The Guardian - UK

Canada fund invests $5 billion in DP World's Dubai home base

International port operator DP World says it sold a stake in its home base, the Jebel Ali Port, and other flagship assets to one of Canada’s largest pension funds for $5 billion

The Independent UK

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UK scraps major P&O Ferries contract after firm laid off hundreds of staff

The government has cancelled a contract with P&O Ferries after the firm used a video call to sack 800 members of staff, some who had worked for the company all their lives

Daily Mirror

TUC chief calls for directors of P&O Ferries to be disqualified

Francis O’Grady writes to Insolvency Service, which is investigating the sacking of almost 800 crew

The Guardian - UK

Fury as P&O Dutch staff get 5% pay rise weeks after firm sacked 800 UK workers

More than 100 employees of the firm in the Netherlands will receive a 5% pay rise despite the company claiming it had been forced to replace UK seafarers with agency staff as it had no money

Daily Mirror

Saudi-backed breakaway series now faces mutiny from DP World Tour as well as PGA Tour

Both the PGA and DP World Tour have blocked applications from players who requested to be released to take part in next month’s inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event

Daily Mirror

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Hyperloop: 9 years later, Elon Musk's biggest pipe dream may finally come true

In a tweet posted in April 2022, Musk revealed that tunneling firm The Boring Company would “attempt to build a working Hyperloop." Can Musk's idea be made to work?

Inverse

Breakaway league sets golfers on collision course with DP World Tour

Members of the DP World Tour who play in June’s $25m Saudi Arabian-backed event in Hertfordshire are likely to face penalties but Phil Mickelson could return to action

The Guardian - UK

Unions call for P&O Ferries boycott for allegedly paying below minimum wage

RMT says workers were paid £4.35 an hour, while P&O blames ‘administrative misunderstanding’

The Guardian - UK

P&O Ferries resumes passenger sailings between Scotland and Northern Ireland

P&O Ferries posted on Twitter today than it had resumed a three-services-per-day schedule for passengers and freight. The operator told had travellers on Sunday that "tourist travel" would not restart until Thursday.

Glasgow Live

P&O Ferries resumes Scotland-Northern Ireland sailings

The European Causeway vessel used on the route between Cairnryan and Larne was released from detention on Friday.

The Independent UK

Dumfries and Galloway Council boots P&O off green freeport bid

Councillors backed a motion to exclude the firm after it sacked 800 workers

Daily Record

P&O Ferries owner DP World loses status as partner in Solent freeport

Exclusive: ministers confirm Emirati logistics giant no longer has central role after anger at sacking of 800 workers

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The Independent UK

Anger as parent firm of P&O Ferries handed £550m of UK aid cash despite mass sackings

MPs attack ‘inappropriate’ use of cash given to ‘disreputable employer’ – but aid chiefs refuse to back down

The Guardian - UK

P&O Ferries has ‘got away with it’, say unions as Shapps backtracks on action

Two-week battle to hold company to account for sacking of 786 crew members appears to end with a whimper

Daily Record

Dumfries and Galloway Council set to throw P&O off Cairnryan green freeport bid

Council leader Elaine Murray and depute Rob Davidson will propose the move at Thursday' full council meeting

Daily Record

Grant Shapps unveils plans to make P&O Ferries 'fundamentally rethink' sackings

These include plans to create "minimum wage corridors" on ferry routes between the UK and other countries.

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Daily Mirror

P&O Ferries: Ports to be handed powers to stop boats docking that don't pay crew minimum wage

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was a warning to P&O Ferries, after the firm's no-notice sackings of 800 staff, that "the game is up" - but unions are unimpressed

The Guardian - UK

Sainsbury’s will do well to take the low-pay pressure seriously

It’s hard to see why the supermarkets have resisted real living wage accreditation for so long

The Independent UK

P&O must be stripped of licence to operate and its boss struck off, senior MPs tell Grant Shapps

Pressure on transport secretary to get tougher with rogue firm after questions raised over his ‘block’ on redundancies

The Guardian - UK

P&O Ferries has last chance to rehire sacked staff, says Grant Shapps

Firm must lift this week’s deadline for workers to reply to redundancy offers, says transport secretary

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson backs calls for shameless P&O boss to quit over illegal sackings

C&O chief Peter Hebblethwaite has been told to sling his hook and walk the plank (you plank) over his firm's illegal sackings of 800 staff - while Grant Shapps suggested he may change law to reinstate axed ferry workers

The Guardian - UK

P&O Ferries: questions raised over Grant Shapps’ meeting with DP World

Dubai meeting in November revealed in departmental minutes

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps was warned 4 months before P&O sackings that it planned cost-cutting changes, minutes show

Transport secretary knew ‘commercial decisions’ were looming - and asked DP World to keep him ‘informed’

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