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the EU commission prohibits to Eurotunnel to operate services ferry with the MyFerryLink company
Gounon: the decision of Brussels unavoidably will lead to an increase of the price of Must crossing
June 6, 2013
Today the EU commission has confirmed to the Eurotunnel group, that it manages the railway tunnel under the English Channel, the prohibition to operate services ferry on the Must route through the new MyFerryLink company ( on 15 March 2013). Eurotunnel has immediately protested against the decision, announcing appeal against a provision that the group considers "incomprehensible and absolutely disproportionate".
"This decision by the EU commission for competition - it has declared the president and managing director of Eurotunnel, Jacques Gounon - will reduce the choice of services on the Strait of Having to the detriment of the consumers. Unavoidably it will lead to an increase of the price of crossing".
According to Eurotunnel, the decision of Brussels "is not based on concrete facts, but exclusively on an accidental association of virtual hypotheses"; moreover "it reorganizes the marine activity through the Strait of Having in a duopoly, with consequent disadvantage for the consumers, prohibits the access to a port in total contradiction with the sanctioned freedom of movement in Europe, deprives the ports of Dover and Calais of considerable revenues, ignores the sentence of the Commercial Court of Paris that alloy the sale of assets of SeaFrance to it the obligations not to resell them for a period five-year-old ( on June 12, 2012, ndr) and it is in contradiction with the decision of the French authority for competition".
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Today the EU commission has confirmed to the Eurotunnel group, that it manages the railway tunnel under the English Channel, the prohibition to operate services ferry on the Must route through the new MyFerryLink company 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
