P&O Portsmouth [SEP] dissolved or abolished
P&amp;O Portsmouth
P&O Portsmouth was the name for P&O European Ferries' Portsmouth operations from 1999 to 2002 when it was merged with the Dover Operations to become P&O Ferries.
History.
P&O Portsmouth was formed in 1999 when P&O European Ferries Portsmouth Operations were named after the merger of the Dover Operations with Stena Line to make P&O Stena Line, when in 2002 P&O bought Stena's 20% share in P&O Stena Line so the North Sea Operations and the Portsmouth operations were merged with the Dover Operations to make P&O Ferries.
expired. P&O announced that the route was loss-making and they could not fund a new-build replacement for the vessel. Equally, no other existing ships were available for purchase or charter.
P&O stated that for the previous three years they had tried to do all they could to make the route profitable. As of 2019, Brittany Ferries continue to serve the route.
Following the closing of the P&O route "Pride of Bilbao" was renamed "Bilbao" in October 2010. The ship left Portsmouth for