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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Water Transport 50.1 - Sea and coastal passenger water transport
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 July 2012
Employment effect (start)
31 July 2012
Foreseen end date
31 August 2012
Description
The commercial Court of Paris has given its green light to Eurotunnel for buying Sea France's assets, the ferry company that was liquidated last June (see here) with 880 dismissals. 500 jobs will be created in the cooperative "My Ferry Link" formed by former Sea France employees, which will rent ferryboats from Eurotunnel.
Activities are announced to start in August, when ferry service will be resumed between the French and English coast.
Sources
6 November 2012: France 3 Nord-Pas-De-Calais
16 July 2012: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2012), My Ferry Link, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 73922, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73922.
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