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Patatras! While the Marseille Commercial Court had, Wednesday, June 10, designate a buyer for SNCM, consular judges finally decided to start from scratch and launch a new call for applications, will we learned a union source . Consular judges set to September 25 the date of the next hearing, at which they will examine hypothetical new offers.
This decision is a victory for the unions. They denounced “inanity” of the tenders submitted by the three buyers remaining, Daniel Berrebi, a French-Tunisian shipowner Christian Garin, former president of the port of Marseille, and Patrick Rocca, a Corsican entrepreneur, anticipating such a programmed social hemorrhage: only 780 to 900 employees, about 2,000 of the company CDI, were taken as the successful tender
To lobby. the court, the company’s trade unions, went into receivership 28 November 2014, had filed a notice of indefinite strike as of June 11, “according to the decision of the Commercial Court,” stated a letter from the CGT sent it a few days ago in the management of SNCM.
“The court rejected the unacceptable pressures on him” , welcomed Maurice Perrin, CFE-CGC representative of the company, the announcement of the decision of the court judges
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The postponement decided by the court is also a victory for the STEF group, a European logistics giant. In a note of six pages without header and without signature, dated 1 st June court, specialist refrigerated transport pleaded for a referral of the decision “at the end of September “, believing that ” a choice precipitated without any support of the staff can only lead to a major conflict, with total blockage of the supply of Corsica “.
Already owner of the South, co-delegate company with SNCM of public service maritime services to Corsica, STEF was said in this loan-mail to play the role of “facilitator”, to “go around the table” to save the company.
Without commitment, the group led by Francis Lemor evoked a project taking six ships and 800 employees, for a price between 15 and 20 million euros, more or less what is proposed by the other candidates.
Main shareholder in SNCM, with 66% interest, alongside the state (25%) and employees (9%), the Transdev group said in a statement issued after the court decision, that “takes note of this decision which unfortunately once again pushes the times at which the SNCM will inevitably face in due course. “
” Transdev is surprised that new takeover bids were made just days before the deliberation of the Commercial Court on the disposal plan, even though they could have been under the call for applications organized by the receivers since last December “, the statement said.
Finally, the group of public transport, equal subsidiary of Veolia and the Deposit, recalls that “whatever the fine retained in solution (…), it will bring no additional contribution to the financing of SNCM and will not go beyond the commitments made so far as to abandon its claims and funding of social restructuring “.
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