A P&O Ferries vessel is under Port State Control (PSC) inspection for the fourth time on Monday after it failed three previous inspections.
The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said a team of surveyors was “carrying out a reinspection of Pride of Kent at the request of P&O Ferries.”
The vessel has been moored at the Port of Dover in Kent since March 17 when P&O Ferries sacked 786 UK-based crew members to replace them with cheaper agency workers and suspended most of its operations.
After British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ordered detailed PSC inspections of all P&O vessels before they could resume sailing, five of the eight vessels subject to inspection have been cleared to sail.
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