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P&O

P&O (in full, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company[1]) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century. Formerly a public company, it was sold to DP World in March 2006 for £3.9 billion. DP World currently operates several P&O branded businesses, P&O Ferries, Istithmar P&O Estates, and P&O Maritime Logistics. It also operates P&O Heritage, which is the official historic archive and collection of P&O.

This article is about the shipping conglomerate owned by DP World. For other uses, see P&O (disambiguation).

Company type

Public

Transport

22 August 1837 (1837-08-22)

Arthur Anderson Edit this on Wikidata

7 March 2006 (2006-03-07)

Acquired by DP World

London, England

Sir John Parker (Chairman)

Ferries, port services, logistics services, real estate:

Increase £2.40 billion (2004)

22,038 (2004)

P&O Cruises was sold in 2000, and is now owned and operated by Carnival Corporation & plc, although the trademark for "P&O Cruises" is still held by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and used under licence.[2] The former shipping business, P&O Nedlloyd, was bought by and is now part of Maersk Line.

a container port at the north end of , and

Southampton

one on the north bank of the , in Essex.

Thames

P&O (aka DP World) manages two ports in the UK:


P&O operates the following ferry companies:

Associated British Ports

a unit of Peel Ports

Mersey Docks and Harbour Company

PD Ports

P&O Maritime Services

Other port operators in the UK include:

P&O Heritage Collection Official site

Clydeside built P&O ships

at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 June 2005)

History of P & O

A travel journalist's article about P&O Cruises

in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Documents and clippings about P&O

GG Archives

Third Class/Steerage Passengers' Contract Ticket P. & O. Line SS Commonwealth dated 18 August 1921