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  DFDS sailings to Dunkerque continued as normal in the bad weather yesterday. It was just the Norman Spirit which briefly interrupted her sailings to Calais. She is nowhere near as good in bad weather as the modern D class ships running to Dunkerque. Presumably she is just a stop gap until DFDS/LD get some suitable tonnage running to Calais, getting a foot in the door before SeaFrance is just a distant memory. The obvious ships for this run are the Rodin and Berlioz and a shipbroker has been appointed to flog them off. P&O and Eurotunnel have both expressed an interest as neither would want to see another operator giving competition to Calais. Moliere has gone to Dunkerque and is being de-branded. She has always been unsuited to the short sea run and Robin Wilkins of SeaFrance attributes part of the reason for the demise of the company as the costs involved in acquiring her. She is owned by the banks so not for sale as a SeaFrance asset.

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