MyFerryLink

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MyFerryLink
legal form
founding 2012
resolution 2015
Seat FranceFrance Lille
Branch shipping

MyFerryLink was a ferry company founded in 2012 as a cooperative that emerged from the bankruptcy of the former SNCF subsidiary SeaFrance . It operated from August 20, 2012, the two RoRo - ferries Rodin and Berlioz and from November 28, 2012 with the RoPax -Fähre Nord Pas-de-Calais , a ferry service between Calais and Dover . MyFerryLink offered passengers up to 16 crossings between Dover and Calais and additional cargo crossings per day.

The employees on board the MyFerryLink ships were all members of a workers' cooperative - a Société coopérative et participative (Scop). The latter operated the ferry connection between Great Britain and France.

The British competition commission CMA decided on June 6, 2013 that Eurotunnel , which had chartered the three MyFerryLink ships to Scop, could no longer operate the ferry service from Dover. Eurotunnel appealed against this decision and the ferry connection continued to operate. On January 9, 2015, the court ruled that the company would have to be sold within the next six months. MyFerryLink successfully took action against this: In mid-May 2015, another judgment was made, according to which there had been serious errors in the CMA's analysis. The initial decision based on this was canceled and the ferry connections could continue to be operated. On June 8, 2015 it was announced that DFDS is taking over the two ships Rodin and Berlioz by way of a lease-buy procedure . The freight ferry Nordpas des Calais will continue to operate Eurotunnel as a dangerous goods ferry . On June 24, 2015, MyFerryLink employees blocked the tunnel under the English Channel to protest the transfer of the ships to DFDS. On June 30, 2015, they repeated their actions there and also in the port of Calais.

MyFerryLink ceased operations on July 2, 2015. The Nord Pas-de-Calais has been operating as the Al Andalus Express for the Förde shipping company Seetouristik between Spain and Morocco since 2016 .

fleet

ship Construction year Shipping company Previous name (s) image
Rodin 2001 2012-2015 Seafrance Rodin SeaFrance Rodin.jpg
Berlioz 2005 2012-2015 Seafrance Berlioz MyFerryLink ferry Berlioz.jpg
Nord Pas-de-Calais 1987 2012-2015 Nord Pas-de-Calais (1987–1996), Seafrance Nord Pas-de-Calais (1996–2012) MyFerryLink ferry Nord Pas-de-Calais.jpg

Web links

Commons : MyFerryLink  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “My Ferry Link” optimistic , Verkehrsrundschau, January 1, 2013.
  2. ↑ MyFerryLink( October 19, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ) , Kent Garden of England.
  3. ↑ The Eurotunnel has problems with its ferries. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 9, 2015, accessed on September 1, 2015 .
  4. ↑ MyFerryLink has to cease operations in the English Channel. Ferry News, January 9, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2015 .
  5. ↑ MyFerryLink is allowed to continue sailing in the English Channel. Ferry News, May 16, 2015, accessed June 24, 2015 .
  6. ↑ MyFerryLink: Eurotunnel annonce la vente de ses ferries , Mer et Marine, 23 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Jamie Weir: DFDS gets 'binding offer' for former MyFerryLink ferries ( Memento June 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Kent News, June 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ Protest against sale: sailors block the Eurotunnel with burning tires. In: Spiegel Online. June 24, 2015, accessed June 24, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Train traffic stopped: ferrymen block the Eurotunnel with burning tires . Spiegel Online, June 30, 2015, accessed June 30, 2015.
  10. ↑ MyFerryLink Services Have Now Ceased operation ( Memento from 1 July 2015, Internet Archive ), MyFerryLink.
  11. ↑ MyFerryLink ceases its ferry operations ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Ferrylines.com, July 2015.