Posting on social media, Duncan-Jordan said he was “disappointed” not to have been contacted by the company before the announcement.<\/p>\n
“This raises understandable questions around redundancies, the impact on tourism and the offer that the town can make to those of us that live here.<\/p>\n
“Businesses are part of our town and need to see themselves in that way, rather than separate entities that have no social responsibilities,” he said.<\/p>\n
The company also said it was looking to close the Portsmouth to Le Havre route from October.<\/p>\n
Wonnacott told BBC Radio Solent the company has had to make “difficult decisions” following a “drop in demand”.<\/p>\n
He said there would be no staff redundancies in the UK.<\/p>\n
The firm said it would run a daily service from Portsmouth to Cherbourg in place of the Poole journey.<\/p>\n
It added that ships serving Guernsey, Poole and Cherbourg would be allocated to a “more efficient” schedule from 1 November.<\/p>\n
This would see its Islander vessel connect Portsmouth to Guernsey, Guernsey to Cherbourg, Cherbourg to Portsmouth.<\/p>\n
Its Voyager fast craft will continue to serve Poole to Guernsey, but with the option to travel on to St Malo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posting on social media, Duncan-Jordan said he was “disappointed” not to have been contacted by the company before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}