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Eurotunnel buys three SeaFrance ferries
The Paris Commercial Court accepted the offer submitted by the group
June 12, 2012
The Eurotunnel group, which manages the tunnel under the canal of the English Channel, announced that the commercial court of Paris has decided yesterday to accept the offer submitted by Eurotunnel for the acquisition of assets of SeaFrance, a shipping company which operated ferry services between France and the United Kingdom and which has been placed in liquidation.
"I am delighted - commented the president and director delegate of Eurotunnel, Jacques Gounon - that the pragmatic approach hired by Eurotunnel has persuaded the commercial court. That will contribute to supporting economic development and supporting the transport of people and goods between the continent and the Gran Brittany'.
Eurotunnel offered €65 million to buy the ships Berlioz, Rodin and Nord-Pas-de-Calais, which presumably they will be reused on the Dover-Calais route. The acquisition will be made through the company Eurotransmanche set up specifically by Eurotunnel and which - remembered the group - will be open to the participation of the local institutions and will rent ferries to a company Operating. This company - the group specified - will be independent of Eurotunnel and will create 500 jobs in the Calais region and a hundred jobs in the Kingdom United.
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