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Dover ferry ban upheld
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will bar Eurotunnel ferries from Dover before the end of 2014.
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Dover ferry ban upheld
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will bar Eurotunnel ferries from Dover before the end of 2014.
It has provisionally confirmed an earlier decision by the Competition Commission (CC) that the French group should cease operating from the key port to Calais.
CMA ruled that circumstances had not changed enough in the market for it to alter its original decision.
In 2012, Eurotunnel bought three ro-paxes from defunct SeaFrance and started a Dover to Calais run under the MyFerryLink name.
Last June, the CC said this would increase its share of the market to over half, including the Channel Tunnel, and force one of
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