News / P&O suspends Easter services from Dover after ferry inspection failures

Pride of Kent & Spirit of Britain in Dover. © Hans Geel Dreamstime.com

A second P&O Ferries vessel at Dover has failed inspection by the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the operator has suspended all its cross-Channel services over the Easter holiday weekend.

Yesterday’s failed inspection of the Spirit of Britain was compounded by the re-inspection failure of the Pride of Kent today, and the ferry company had apparently seemingly received early warnings of this.

P&O Ferries tweeted at 3:10pm yesterday that it would not operate any services from Dover from midnight on Friday and ...