Dover-Calais ferries to be suspended due to French strike

Ferries betwixt Dover and Calais volition beryllium disrupted by a nationalist onslaught successful France connected Thursday.

P&O Ferries said services to and from the French larboard volition beryllium suspended from 07:00 GMT for 9 hours.

Dover volition inactive beryllium unfastened with Dunkerque services moving arsenic mean but travellers are being urged to let other clip for journeys.

A time of onslaught enactment crossed France is being staged to protestation astir plans to rise the authoritative pension age.

P&O said it could not expect the grade of disruption to services, adding that "it is imaginable that our wider operations could beryllium affected during the day".

When ferries resume aft onslaught enactment ends astatine 16:00 GMT, determination volition beryllium a shuttle work betwixt Dover and Calais until each postulation is cleared.

The onslaught volition besides impact Eurostar obstruction services - a reduced fig of trains volition tally connected 19 January owed to unit shortages.

There volition beryllium cancellations betwixt London and Paris and connected services connecting London to Lille, Brussels, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

There volition besides beryllium a reduced work connected Friday.