Liverpool, UK: P&O Ferries is to end its Liverpool-Dublin sailings. The Liverpool-Dublin route will be axed due to the unavailability of a berth in the Merseyside city for next year, the company said. The move follows Port of Liverpool operator Peel Ports saying it would not run the route on “expiration” of the contract.
The mainly freight-only service provided up to four daily sailings. P&O Ferries said “extensive negotiations” had taken place in an attempt “to extend our lease… or find an alternative site for our Liverpool-Dublin service”, but they had proved “unsuccessful”.
“Unfortunately, despite utmost efforts by P&O Ferries to find a viable solution, no suitable alternative has been offered that would enable us to maintain the current service into 2024,” a representative said. P&O said the decision to close the route had been “forced by the port provider”
