News / P&O Ferries: it's an 'organised retreat', claims analyst

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P&O’s recent withdrawal from the port of Liverpool fits the pattern of a wider, “organised retreat” from the UK for parent company DP World, one expert has suggested.

In a recent report, MDS Transmodal highlighted that P&O had cut its share of the capacity significantly in the Great Britain-Ireland trade, from 27% to 18%, with the remaining operators picking up the slack. And P&O’s capacity share in the North Sea between the UK and Europe fell from 17% to just 9%.

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