Bosses from DFDS and Stena Lines will meet transport officials to discuss fallout from P&O's sackings.
in Northern Ireland, saying the vessel was "unfit to sail".
Unions have raised fears over a lack of training of new crew, after P&O replaced their members with agency workers whose average hourly rate of pay would be £5.50 - less than the UK minimum wage. P&O Ferries has said it had to replace crews as it was losing £100m a year, and would not be a viable business without making the changes.
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