Ferry sale could fund UK route plans
Tuesday 16th September 2008, 2:29PM BST.
HD1 has been valued at €12.5m.
HD FERRIES has played down fears that it is pulling out of the Channel Islands.
A spokesman said that the firm might sell its ferry, HD1, to fund a service from the islands to the UK, a spokesman has confirmed.
But the operator’s primary focus at present is to try to charter HD1 out for the winter months. It has long been known that HD Ferries hopes to introduce a northern route and spokesman Phil Jones admitted a new vessel would be needed for that.
‘We are actively exploring chartering the ship out elsewhere for the winter, maybe to the southern hemisphere, but we are not ruling out selling HD1,’ he said.
‘But if we were to do so, we would not until we had arrangements in place to buy another ship.’
Adverts have been circulated in the industry and HD1 has been valued at 12.5m. euros (about £10m.).
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God forbid, do not let HD run from the UK, it was bad enough inter islands, dread to think of it at sea for real.
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dont entertain hd in any shape or form, just remember the last two years,its not just the vessel,its the company.
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As Laurel would say to Hardy…..”that’s another fine mess you got me into” – that’s exactly what HD Management would be saying if they attempted to run a “service” from the UK. Just give up HD and accept defeat. A lot of people have called Condor Ferries but at the end of the day they offer a fairly reliable service. Long live Condor Ferries. Maybe, just maybe HD could offer a reliable service from one end of the model yacht pond to the other…surely the waves here wouldn’t be too high for them ?
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I guess then that you guys have not noticed the sudden increase in price to travel on condor as soon as HD pulled out. The trouble is a new business will always struggle and this hasn’t been helped by the vessel that they run with. Get a better boat and I’d be happy to sail on HD ferries again. Did we not have a similar problem with Condor when they first started sailing?
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People have short memories, years ago when we lost our passenger ships and other companies expressed interest in the routes, our lords and masters dictated that a “Special kind of ship” had to be used because the waves are different in the channel than the North sea, since that time condor has reigned supreme getting all the help and co operation from Guernsey and Jersey as and when they want.
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