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Eurotunnel confirmation the intention to yield the ferries Rodin and Berlioz to the DFDS
The group will ask the competent authorities for being able to operate "Nord Pas de Calais"
June 8, 2015
The Eurotunnel group has restated the decision to sell own activity of marine transport carried out with the MyFerryLink brand, specifying that "sussistono the conditions necessary in order not to develop them freely". At the beginning of this year, in fact, the Competition Appeal Tribunal of the United Kingdom has confirmed the prohibition to the company of navigation of the group to operate the services ferry with departure from Dover ( on 9 January 2015).
The group that manages the railway tunnel under the English Channel has manifested regret because the society participatory cooperative and (Scop) SeaFrance has not obtained the necessary support so that it could introduce a proposal of purchase of the ships operated with the MyFerryLink brand and has confirmed that it has in hand a binding offer introduced from the shipowning group and logistic Danish DFDS in order to acquire the ferries Rodin and Berlioz previously operated from the company of the Eurotunnel group.
According to Eurotunnel, the British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would not have to be opposed to the sale in when the operation guarantees the presence in the market of the marine connections through the Handle of two operators of equal importance. "With this sale - it has specified moreover the company - the Eurotunnel group will assure that the activity remains to Calais, a situation that is not obtained when the SeaFrance Moliere is yielded by its owner, Credit Lyonnais, for being operated in the Sea of Ireland".
For Nord Pas de Calais, the last ship that remains to Eurotunnel, the group has announced that it will ask the competent authorities to remove the current prohibition so that can continue to being employed in the Handle.
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The Eurotunnel group has restated the decision to sell own activity of marine transport carried out with the MyFerryLink brand, specifying that "sussistono the conditions necessary in order not to develop them freely". At the beginning of this year, in fact, the Competition Appeal Tribunal of the United Kingdom has confirmed the prohibition to the company of navigation of the group to operate the services ferry with departure from Dover 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
