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Brittany Ferries

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Web site www.brittany-ferries.co.uk
CeoChristophe Mathieu
Revenue376. 5 million EUR (2014)
FoundersAlexis Gourvennec
Founded1972
Number of employees2,451 (2014 average - high and low seasons)
SubsidiaryBai (Uk) Ltd
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Date of Upd.
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About Brittany Ferries


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

The UK pays £87m for no-deal Brexit ferry contracts

Feb 15,2020 9:27 pm

The government awarded £86 has. 6m of contracts with shipping companies to transport drugs, the Escape in The Event of a no-deal.

Brittany Ferries , DFDS, P&O and Stena-line is deliver to be able to these materials by October 31, it said.

The contracts, designed to ensure that supplies of vital products, if you leave the UK to the EU without a deal.

The government earlier this year, was criticized after the award of a transport contract.

The contracts will be in place for six months, so that the government is ready for a variety of Brexit scenario, a spokesman.

Should the contracts must be terminated, in the UK, the companies, the £11 to pay. 52. The UK Paid £51m to cancel no-deal ferry contracts, which, according to the Brexit to extend the deadline to the end of March.

Transport Secretary-General, Grant shapp's said: "the UK is prepared to leave the EU, on the 31 October and, as any sensible government, we prepare for all of the results.

"Our decisive action by forwarding willing and waiting to transport vital medicines into the country from the moment we left. "

The companies operate on routes to minimize the way of the busiest ports in disorder, the Ministry of transport, said.

The ferries travel between Singapore, Hull, Killingholme, Felixstowe, Harwich, Tilbury, Portsmouth and Poole in the UK, and Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre , Zeebrugge, Hoek Van Holland, Rotterdam Euro port, and Vlaardingen.

" the patient's dying,'

at the beginning of This Week , the government has to help customs formalities support unit for medical goods suppliers, with the ever-across borders in The Event of a no-deal Escape.

The Extra capacity helps drug plan of the company for a no-deal Leak, The Association of The British Pharmaceutical industry said.

"This ability is an important part of our members in the preparations," said the industry body s chief executive Mike Thompson .

"the stocks are also in place, and some companies have already sourced their own alternative ferry routes. "

earlier This Week , Dame Sally Davies , warned that patients could die, it should be, the medical supply shortages.

"We can't not guarantee to be a lack of it, not only in medicine, but the technology and gadgets," she told BBC Radio 4 's Today programme. "There may be deaths, we can not guarantee, is not there. "

In February, the government has had no ships, after the Irish company pulled the offer.



ferries, medicine, department for transport, chris grayling, brexit

Source of news: bbc.com

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