Committee president Deputy Sasha Kazantseva-Miller said DFDS was “effectively cancelling something they shouldn’t have been selling in the first place.”<\/p>\n
DFDS has been approached for comment and the Governemnt of Jersey declined to respond.<\/p>\n
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Deputy Sasha Kazantseva-Miller is president of Guernsey’s Committee for Economic Development [BBC]<\/p>\n
Guersney’s Committee for Economic Development said it only “recently discovered” DFDS had been selling tickets for the Monday sailings in July and August which it was not authorised to sail.<\/p>\n
Kazantseva-Miller said: “The sailings that DFDS is supposed to be cancelling with the announcement are sailings that have never been authorised by our committee.<\/p>\n
“DFDS has never come to us and asked for this Monday sailings with their high speed vessel over the summer.<\/p>\n
“To be unambiguous, the sailings DFDS claims are being ‘cancelled’ were never authorised by Guernsey in the first place.<\/p>\n
“We are absolutely open to considering any proposals.<\/p>\n
“So it’s very astonishing frankly to say that these proposals that have been on sale haven’t come to the committee.<\/p>\n
“We would have very openly considered them on the same criteria and parameters that we considered the previous proposal.”<\/p>\n
The other sailings cancelled by DFDS were proposals for a weekend route between the islands and Portsmouth which were rejected by Economic Development in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n ‘Playing these games’<\/p>\n Kazantseva-Miller said finding a solution to inter-island travel may have to wait until a new Jersey Government is in place after the general election in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We urge really both the Government of Jersey and DFDS to really openly engage with the government of Guernsey to really sort inter-island connectivity and stop playing games like this,” she said.<\/p>\n “If the Government of Jersey is generally committed to inter-island travel, they need to make it a contractual obligations for DFDS to operate.<\/p>\n “Otherwise what appears is that there is a lot of talk but actually there’s very little walking the walk.<\/p>\n “Actually playing these games providing and selling services that are unlicensed is really games we don’t want to be playing.”<\/p>\n DFDS has been approached for comment on the cancellations and the comments from Kazantseva-Miller.<\/p>\n Jersey’s Minister for Sustainable Economic Development Deputy Kirsten Morel was approached for comment but declined to respond.<\/p>\n Follow BBC Guernsey on X<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. Follow BBC Jersey on X<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related internet linksRelated internet links