New Dover to Calais ferry service
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A new ferry service between Dover and Calais will start in a
fortnight.
DFDS and LD Lines has confirmed it will be running two
cross-Channel boats, with the first sailing on Friday, February
17.
The join passenger and freight ferry service will operate under
a French flag.
The company said it would hire 300 workers, many of them former
SeaFrance staff.
The ailing French ferry firm was liquidated by a French court on
January 9 after more than a year of financial problems.
DFDS dropped its attempt to by the ailing SeaFrance, which
operated three ferries on the Dover to Calais route before the
service was suspended in November.
A DFDS spokesman said: "We look forward to continuing this
fruitful cooperation to the benefit of the future development of
the route as well as employment.
"We are confident that our customers and the many people and
freight companies that travel between France and Dover will benefit
from the flexibility we can now offer with both a northern leg on
Dover-Dunkerque and a southern leg on Calais-Dover."
Friday, February 03 2012
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