P&O Ferries

Founded in 1837 and incorporated under Royal Charter in 1840, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) is a major international logistics and transport company.

P&O is the leading ferry operator in the UK and provide cold logistics services internationally. It also has interest in P&O NedLloyd, one of the world's largest container shipping lanes.

The original P&O retains a core of businesses based on worldwide port development and management, ferry services between the UK and Europe, logistics and supply chain management throughout Europe, cold logistics operations in Australasia, the USA and South America, and worldwide cargo shipping. Its subsidiaries and associates are based in more than 50 countries, employ over 33,000 people, and operate in all the continents and oceans of the world.

Since October 2002 the English Channel and North Sea ferry operations of the P&O Group have taken on a brand new identity under the collective name of P&O Ferries.

P&O Ferries is the new brand name for the following services previously known as:

• P&O Stena Line (routes from Dover)
• P&O Portsmouth (routes from Portsmouth)
• P&O North Sea Ferries (routes from Hull)

The launch of the brand new name followed P&O's purchase of Stena Line's 40% shareholding in P&O Stena Line, which was cleared by the European Commission in August 2002. P&O Stena Line was the former name of the short-sea services operating from Dover.

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