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DFDS: Roll-on Roll-off Ships

Asked by Neil Duncan-JordanLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 12 March 2025UIN 35599

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with trade unions on seafarer jobs providing DFDS services to Jersey from (a) Poole and (b) Portsmouth.

Answered by Mike Kane

Ministers and officials meet regularly with the trade unions to discuss seafarers. The issue of seafarer jobs on the new DFDS services to Jersey has not been raised.

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