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Ferries and Linéa Corsica plan the fusion
While Corsica Linéa and the Méridionale collaborates to the creation of a marine company that will be controlled by the Territorial Collectivity of Corsica
January 29, 2016
the French companies of navigation MCM and Linéa Corsica, the two new operators of services ferry between the continent and the Corsica, are estimating the possible fusion. The French society MCM SAS work services ferry with the commercial brand Maritime Ferries and has been born 5th January reactivating in fact the activity of the Société Nationale Maritime-Race Méditerranée (SNCM), society that to end 2014 was placed in controlled administration and that a year after era yielded Patrick Rocca, patron of the MCM. The Network of services of Maritime Ferries includes broken that they connect the port of Marseilles with the main run ports let alone the routes Marseilles-Tunisi and Marseilles-Algeri. Debutante is also Linéa Corsica, company of the guided consortium Marine Corsica from François Padrona whom the next week he will begin to then carry out a service between the port of Marseilles and that of Ajaccio in order, with the introduction of a second ship, to realize a Marseilles-Fortification service.
the concentration plan, more than to illuminate the market of the marine connections between continental France and Corsica, than from years is in continuous boiling, seems to light confuse ulteriorly the scene of the understanding protocol that monday is signed by the same Linéa Corsica and the company of navigation the Méridionale of Marseilles, also active it in the same market, with the run representation of the Confédération Francaise Démocratique du Travail (CFDT) and with Syndicat DES Travailleurs Corses (STC), agreement that has been undersigned in sight of the constitution of a new company of run navigation that it is proposed by the Collectivity Territorial of Corsica (CTC). The understanding previews the development of a series of encounters with the scope to reach the creation of the new marine company through a public-private partnership. The new society will have center in Corsica and will be controlled by CTC that will stop 51% of the capital.
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