howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Just been listening to a report about the subject on You and yours on Radio 4. It's their final item.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Another stay of execution, 4 more weeks of worry for the staff, but all the while they are trading there is hope.
Audere est facere.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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It will be a sad day if we lose Seafrance,taking the car across this year on several trips it was much cheaper than using PO, so lets hope they can fined a solution to this.
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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sitting in the docks 4hr delays on the ferries
beer the food of the gods
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I understand that Stack is on standby for possible implementation of Phase I.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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You have to wonder how Seafrance can make the decision to actually start sailing again until the 12th December deadline, can imagine that any goodwill between management and crew has long gone.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i don't think many people will be booking with them, the atmosphere on board will be chronic and no-one knows when they would walk out again.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Still no sign of any Seafrance ships running. All looks rather barren down in the docks at the moment.
Only one ship in and staying in... the Nord Pas de Calais, the ship that Ed photographed earlier. Here it is a few minutes ago and it looks like the guys have hung their washin' out from stem to stern.
Its very very long range so the camera a bit overtaxed but you get the gist...
Here we are below with the fleet in its heydey 2008 as seen from Calais beach...
Sad to see the current situation, not least because 135 people could lose their jobs here in Dover, and we dont have too many employers offering replacement jobs, and overall more than 800 could lose their jobs. So an ideal would be for someone to take them over, not another shipping line, and run it as is in fact...in its current entirety.
Brian Dixon
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acording to radio news reports seafrance where hoping to resume services this afternoon.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Nothing so far Brian...
I think that extra P&0 is in. The one to take up the shortfall as mentioned previously.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Ah! indeed PaulB, a great picture there above of a Seafrance ship basking in the sun on the beautiful sandy Calais beach, halcyon days for sure, I for one would miss them. I found them cleaner and cheaper to travel on over the years. Yes, would be brilliant if that someone could take them over rather than another shipping company but dreaming is easy ..........
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the latest on the radio is that they expect sailings to recommence over the weekend.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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just been on seafrances web site filled in a form for a ferry ticket for a car and four [4], came back with a p & o ticket for 60 squid return,thats for being away for 2 nights.
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I came back through Calais this afternoon and no sign of any activity on Sea France ships at all.
beer the food of the gods
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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To be honest I can't imagine the liquidator will put the company's major asset , the ferries, back in the hands of the volatile French crews, we may have seen the last of them.
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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brought this back up as its gone quite.
has any one got any ideas when they are going to sail again,i know they got a 2 month reprive untill the end of january.but have heard nothing since.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Moliere, Rodin and Berlioz all moored alongside in Calais, none of them on loading berths. Don't know what's happened to the NPC.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 732- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
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Looks like they wont be sailing till the 12th of December.
