The SeaFrance ships were laid up in Calais yesterday whilst the crews went off to Paris to protest. The Commercial Court in Paris has now postponed a decision until November 16th. Here is a Google translation from a French newspaper:
SeaFrance: the Commercial Court postpones decision
The court considered the bids Tuesday for the resumption of cross-Channel ferry company in receivership. His fate will not be known until November 16.
The management of SeaFrance, which employs over 800 employees, was the first to be heard. Then each in turn, potential buyers presented their projects at a hearing in camera, to which many journalists were unable to attend.The fate of SeaFrance will not be known until November 16. Takeover or liquidation? The Commercial Court of Paris, on Tuesday examined the case of cross-Channel ferry company in receivership, has decided to postpone its decision.
Representatives of the Danish DFDS industrial and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, who submitted a joint bid, have declined to comment after their hearing. For his part, Didier Cappelle, general secretary of the union CFDT North Sea and the bearer of a draft Scop (cooperative and participatory whose majority shareholders are the employees), was outraged: "We understand that the station had is a massive opportunity to DFDS [...] which will further cut hundreds of jobs. [...] She murdered the draft Scop. "
Possible appeal in Brussels
Some 250 employees of SeaFrance had made the trip from Calais to show their anger and defend their positions. "The management of work, the sailors at work!" They chanted. In the afternoon, some of them climbed the railing of the bridge to bypass the dam Change CRS faced them and join the court, located Quai de la Corse on the Ile de la Cité.
Monday, the European Commission had rejected the restructuring plan SeaFrance , considering it "incompatible with European rules regarding state aid control." In Focus Brussels included the loan of 100 million euros made ​​by SNCF, the parent company, considered as state aid unjustified. The Minister of Economy Baroin said Tuesday that France would consider "remedies" to "appeal" the decision of the Commission.
http://www.lesechos.fr/entreprises-secteurs/auto-transport/actu/0201713148440-seafrance-le-tribunal-de-commerce-reporte-sa-decision-239261.php