Ok of the EU commission to the public investment for the new terminal you ferry of the port of Calais



The EU commission has authorized destined the public financing of 270 million euros to the construction of a new terminal in the port of Calais dedicated to the traffics of passengers and goods in the English Channel, financing - it has specified today Brussels - that is online with the communitarian rules on the aids of State and is face to realize a new infrastructure that is framed in the objectives of politics of the transports of the European Union without to forge indebtedness the competition in the home market.

"This - the European commissioner to the Competition has explained, Margrethe Vestager - is a good example of as the Member States can increase the investments in infrastructures without to damage the competition in the only market. This French project has attracted necessary private financings for the completion of a project that could not have started without this cooperation. Moreover draft of a transeuropeo project that will contribute to improve the flow of the connections through the Handle and will strengthen the commercial exchanges between the United Kingdom, Ireland and continental Europe".

The project introduced last April from the French authorities to the EU commission previews the widening of the port of Calais with the construction of a new terminal in deep waters, to sea regarding current harbour infrastructures, with coming financings from the State and the local authorities of Pas-de-Calais.

The EU commission has specified that the deepened financial analysis of the project demonstrates that the returns confiscated in a period 50-year-old from the terminalista society for the management of the new infrastructure would be insufficient to cover the costs of the investment and that, therefore, the project ninth can be realized without financings publics.

Moreover the EU commission has evidenced to have stated that the public financing is limited lessened necessary in order to return the investment possible and that the distortion of the competition will be limited in consideration of the forecasts of increase of the traffic and the fact that are other ports and Eurotunnel, the society that the railway tunnel under the Handle manages, to continue to exercise a competitive pressure on the port of Calais.