Eurotunnel is selling two of its three ships DFDS and loose … – Le Figaro

The Franco-British company announced yesterday that it has selected the Danish DFDS Group for the sale of two of its vessels. The Scop SeaFrance is more than ever under threat and uncertainty increases for its 600 employees.

SeaFrance eagerly awaited choice. Eurotunnel announced yesterday that it has selected the Danish DFDS Group for the sale of two of its three ships operated by the company Myferrylink on shipping routes between France and England. In a statement, the Franco-British group announced regret “that the SeaFrance SCOP did not have the necessary support to make a takeover bid” and “seat engaging the offer presented by DFDS for leasing ships Berlioz and Rodin. ”

There are a few weeks, Eurotunnel had decided not to renew its contract with SCOP SeaFrance Myferrylink which operates the company, and whose commitment runs until 2 July. The uncertainty was latent around the future of the 600 employees of SeaFrance while a hearing is scheduled Thursday to place the company in receivership.

This choice thus promotes “the maintenance of the activity Calais “and” allows us to hope the best possible solution in terms of jobs saved uninterrupted service beginning in July, “explains Eurotunnel. The group, also operator of the Channel Tunnel, is still pending the approval of the UK competition authority and market (CMA). On 9 January the British Court of Appeal for Competition had confirmed the position of the latter holding that the operation of the Dover-Calais route through the Eurotunnel subsidiary represented a distortion of competition and an abuse of dominant position Channel transport in the

Apart from DFDS, the British company P &. O also provides connections between Calais and Dover. Myferrylink provides for its more than 200 weekly sailings between the two cities. Eurotunnel, however, must continue operating its third ship, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, for freight.

When asked by Europe 1 , the head of FO Myferrylink, Thierry Haxaire , said to be “devastated, it’s really not expect the new one. It was a crazy work to get our Scop on track, it worked, it was quite feasible. ”

Myferrylink was launched in 2012 with the ships purchased by Eurotunnel SeaFrance as part of its liquidation. While justice was given six months to the Franco-British group to sell the company, it had announced a few weeks ago wanting to dispose of the company which has propelled the DFDS way to a record high of 854 crowns.