Norman Voyager At Rosslare Harbour - geograph

DFDS Seaways France, trading as

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, and formerly known as New Channel Company A/S, is the trading name of the ferry services across the

Dover Strait The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait (french: Pas de Calais - ''Strait of Calais''), is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and the North Sea, separating Great Britain from continent ...

and

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

operated by

and formerly operated by LD Lines.

History

In 2012 when SeaFrance was liquidated, DFDS and LD Lines started a joint service between Dover and Calais and formed New Channel Company A/S or DFDS Seaways France by merging certain LD Lines and DFDS routes into the new company such as LD Lines

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and Newhaven to

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services and DFDS Dover to Dunkirk services but also along with the joint Dover- Calais service. In June 2015, DFDS chartered the MyFerryLink/ Eurotunnel ferries

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to enter service on 2 July 2015 when the MyFerryLink Dover- Calais ceased service. DFDS planned to keep 202 of the 600 French jobs currently employed by SCOP Seafrance, but in reaction to this decision, the French crew struck in Calais on 29 June 2015 and later occupied the two passenger vessels in Calais and started to vandalise the vessels. This delayed their re-entry into Dover- Calais service. Meanwhile, MS ''Calais Seaways'' was diverted and placed on Dover- Dunkirk service and MS ''Malo Seaways'' was laid up in Dover from 29 June. On 13 September both vessels were tugged to Dunkirk for refit and repaint, which showed the start of DFDS ownership of the vessels, which have subsequently been renamed ''Côte des Dunes'' and ''Côte des Flandres''. In October 2014, DFDS extended its operation contract for the Newhaven-

service with Syndicat Mixte de Promotion de L'Activité Transmanche (SMPAT), for a further year to secure the service, and was further extended in May 2016 for four years until May 2020. On 31 December 2014, DFDS closed the

service due to continued losses on the service, following its acquisition from

LD Lines LD Lines was a French shipping company, with both roro freight and passenger ferry operations. It was a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), which engages in building, owning, operating, and managing vessels. LD Lines operated fer ...

and also following

Brittany Ferries Brittany Ferries is the trading name of the French shipping company, BAI Bretagne Angleterre Irlande S.A. founded in 1973 by Alexis Gourvennec, that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between France and the United Kingdom, Ireland, a ...

introduction of its Economie service to

. The sole vessel, MS Seven Sisters was moved to lay up in Dunkirk before being introduced during the summer of 2015 full-time on the Newhaven-

service. As of August 2017,

currently operates between Dover and Calais/ Dunkirk and also Newhaven and

Fleet

Former fleet

References

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