{"id":7519,"date":"2026-02-10T05:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/7519\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:44:14","slug":"minister-dfds-cancellations-are-to-resolve-amazon-parcel-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/7519\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister: DFDS cancellations are to resolve Amazon parcel delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/64e341b272487.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Economic Development Minister says DFDS&#8217; decision to cancel Saturday sailings to the UK for four weeks is justified.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry firm announced on Wednesday (4 February) it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel103.com\/news\/jersey\/saturday-passenger-sailings-to-the-uk-from-jersey-cancelled-for-four-weeks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspending Saturday sailings<\/a> of the Stena Vinga to Portsmouth between\u00a028 February, and 22 March.<\/p>\n<p>It said it is to &#8216;support freight capacity requirements over the coming weeks&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Customers booked on to the four affected sailings have been automatically transferred to the Friday boat.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Kirsten Morel has since told Channel 103 that the decision follows talks with Jersey Post to resolve delays to Amazon deliveries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel103.com\/news\/jersey\/jersey-post-increase-the-number-of-collections-from-amazon-depots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read:\u00a0Jersey Post increase the number of collections from Amazon depots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the result of DFDS sitting down with Jersey Post to sort out the issue around Amazon deliveries that was caused by cessation of the Tuesday sailing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They worked together to find a solution, and that was to choose (to suspend) the Saturday sailing because it does not have many passengers booked on it in February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not good for those people who are inconvenienced, but &#8211; from the bigger picture perspective &#8211; there are not many people who are going to have to change sailing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the important thing is that we have a ferry provider who is listening to our concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday sailings of the Stena Vinga are making a comeback from 17 February.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Jersey Post said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcome the reintroduction of the Tuesday evening ferry service, following consultation by DFDS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mondays and Tuesdays are our busiest days, with nearly half of all\u00a0weekly mail arriving on these two days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Letters and parcels remain an important service for many islanders and businesses, helping to keep Jersey connected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\">DFDS says the service will return to a six-day-a-week schedule from 22 March, operating from Monday to Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Economic Development Minister says DFDS&#8217; decision to cancel Saturday sailings to the UK for four weeks is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6052],"tags":[6136,6128,6131,1294,6132,6057,6134,6126,6135,6130,6133,6125,6127,6129],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dfds","tag-absolute","tag-alderney","tag-bailiwick","tag-capital","tag-channel-islands","tag-dfds","tag-greatest-hits","tag-guernsey","tag-heart","tag-herm","tag-hits","tag-island-fm","tag-radio","tag-sark"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}