P&O Ferries suspends all services and tells customers to find alternative travel

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P&O Ferries has announced that all services have been suspended this weekend with customers told to find another operator to travel with - despite previously stating that business was set to resume.

The scandal-hit ferry company has cancelled all operations since March, after its decision to sack 800 staff members and replace them with agency workers sparked national outrage.

A post to Twitter account P&O Updates read: "All P&O Ferries Passenger Services are suspended this weekend. "For travel 8/9/10th April please re-book directly with another operator before arriving at the port." The operator stated yesterday that they were ready to resume services this weekend, but in a u-turn today announced that they are already cancelled, the Mirror reports.

The announcement will undoubtedly exacerbate the logjam on the M20 in which Operation Brock has been instigated, Kent Online reports.Today, which is the eighth day of travel disruption in Kent, there is a massive queue of traffic waiting to get into the Port of Dover.Rival DFDS has warned of delays of up two hours on its services from Dover to Calais and that it is not accepting P&O customers.Chris Parker, DFDS director, said it was running ferries as "fast as we can".The ferry operator has more than 40,000 passengers booked on its services from Dover this weekend, a 50% increase on last weekend.There is an anticipated 30,000,000 expected to hit the roads ahead of the Easter holidays.Around 13.6million are expected on Good Friday alone.With travel chaos set to continue this weekend as thousands of holidaymakers and truckers face further delays heading to the channel port of Dover, fears are mounting that the local council is set to declare a "major incident".In an open