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The owner of P&O Ferries has "turned a corner" since 800 staff were sacked without notice and its £1bn investment is going ahead, a minister has told Sky News.

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Two new shipping berths and a second rail terminal will be built at the site

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The CEO of P&O Ferries admitted to breaking the law by not consulting unions before sacking 800 staff without notice and replacing them with foreign agency staff in 2022.

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P&O Ferries owner has 'turned a corner' since 800 staff sacked, minister says as £1bn investment to go ahead

The expansion will see two new shipping berths built, increasing the total to six, and a second rail terminal added.

P&O Ferries owner DP World has unveiled its £1bn investment into London Gateway port at the government’s investment summit. The Dubai-based firm had threatened to cancel the announcement after Transport Secretary Louise Haigh described its subsidiary as a “cowboy operator,” in reference to the controversial sacking of 800 P&O workers in 2022. Prime Minister Keir Starmer subsequently distanced himself from Haigh’s remarks in order to prevent DP W…

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DP World: P&O Ferries owner unveils £1bn London Gateway investment following row

The Government’s skirmish with DP World, the large Dubai-based investor to the UK, has ended in a peace treaty at the expense of the Transport Secretary’s dignity and leaving many more questions than it answers. Louise Haigh now has the dubious honour of being the first front-ranking Labour figure to have her views publicly disowned by the Prime Minister. Her call for a boycott of P&O Ferries, owned by DP World, in the wake of its summary dismis…

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P&O Ferries. Pride of Canterbury. Photo by Drive-By Photography is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. DP World has revealed a £1 billion plan to expand the London Gateway container port at the Government’s investment summit. It comes after reports the P&O Ferries owner was set to shelve the announcement over calls from a Government minister to boycott its subsidiary. On Wednesday last week, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh described P&O Ferries as …

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DP World announces £1bn investment at summit after P&O Ferries row

Starmer’s been backed into a corner, declaring he has “full confidence” in his Transport Secretary Louise Haigh after her remarks almost torpedoed a whopping £1 billion investment deal from DP World. His team is now scrambling to spin her “success,” highlighting her ability to “deliver significant investment in electric buses” and supposedly end “industrial disruption.[…] Read the rest

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Port and logistics firm DP World is going ahead with a 1 billion pound ($1.3 billion) investment in its London Gateway port, Britain's government said on Sunday after reports last week that the company had paused the project in protest.In what…

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