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DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs have completed the constitution of joint venture
Society (82% DFDS and 18% LDA) will begin the operating activity on 1° October
September 26, 2012
Shipowning group Danish DFDS and that French Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) have communicated today the completion of the constitution of joint venture announced in spring ( on 27 March 2012). The new company, that the next 1° October will become operating, is participated with 82% from DFDS and 18% from LDA.
In joint venture they will meet the carried out marine activities from DFDS in the English Channel and it leave of the activities carried out from the LD Lines, company that work also it services in the English Channel as well as the lines Saint-Nazaire-Gijón and Marseilles-Tunisi.
The new company will operate a fleet constituted from seven ships ro-pax, of which four of properties and three rental, and from a ship ro-ro rental that will have a total ability to 11.700 linear meters of rotabili and 4,000 passengers. The ships will be employed in the English Channel on the routes Must, Must, Portsmouth-Le Havre and Newhaven-Dieppe and in the Mediterranean on the Marseilles-Tunisi route.
DFDS and LDA preview that in the first year of activity joint venture 215 million euros will total revenues generated from the services in the English Channel pairs to 1,6 billion Danish crowns () to which they will join 100 million to Danish crowns (13 million euros) produced from the Marseilles-Tunisi service.
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