The recent controversy about P&O Ferries and its immediate termination or sacking of over 800 employees has had huge repercussions for the cross-channel ferry market. This has been a major route for both trade and tourism for years, decades and even centuries. When P&O Ferries was forced to close down its operations as a result of the decision to terminate workers’ contracts, this had an enormous effect on the volume of trade and tourism moving between the UK and the European Union.
Many of us will have made this crossing when going on holiday or even a day trip. Consider that you are undertaking one of the world’s oldest regular boat crossings. It’s only 31 miles from Dover to Calais, but this is a crossing which has been taking place since the Bronze Age, around 3,500 years ago. The port of Dover became important because it is a natural port in the middle of the great white cliffs, so it offered an opening for tradesmen to come to the island of Britain.
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