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Unexpected proposal of Eurotunnel for the rescue of SeaFrance
The group is ready to buy three ships and to rent them to the dependent of the navigation company
January 9, 2012
The Eurotunnel group, than work the railway tunnel under the English Channel, is offered as savior of the SeaFrance French, navigation company mails 16th November in liquidation. Today the commercial court of Paris will examine newly the plan of rescue of SeaFrance introduced from the dependent of the company and supported from union CFDT, than however he has little possibilities to be approved of as a cover does not anticipate financial institution necessary to assure the prosecuzione of the activity ( of 13 and 20 December 2011).
The commissioning of the channel-tunnel under the Handle managed from Eurotunnel has put in SeaFrance crisis, that a service operated ferry between the ports of Calais and Dover. Completely unexpected the proposal of Eurotunnel has reached therefore to acquire three ships of the navigation company and to rent them to the same dependent of SeaFrance with the objective to maintain while still alive the company and to save its 800 places of job.
The managing director of Eurotunnel, Jacques Gounon, has specified to the French daily paper "Libération" that its group could acquire a quota majority in SeaFrance.
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