Marseille: Algeria Ferries in high demand
Sea crossings from France to Algeria are experiencing very strong demand, two months after the launch of the summer program. The additional crossing announced by Algérie Ferries for this Sunday July 24 from Marseille is far from sufficient.
Last Wednesday, the national shipping company announced an additional crossing from Marseille to Algiers for Sunday July 24. The crossing, announced following the latest instructions from the Head of State, will be provided by the ship El Djazair 2.
Passengers with open tickets are therefore called upon to contact the services of the Algérie Ferries company in Marseille to register on the travel list. Other passengers can also purchase tickets to the extent of available places, specifies Algérie Ferries.
Demand is very strong from Marseille. Two months after the launch of the summer crossing programme, Algerian passengers are still encountering travel difficulties departing from Marseille. This is an observation made by the deputy of the Algerians of France, Abdelouahab Yagoubi.
Marseille – Algiers crossing: “ This rotation alone is insufficient »
In a post published on his Facebook page, the elected official indicates that he had exchanges with the officials of Algeria Ferries in order to resolve the difficulties of travel for Algerian passengers, in particular on the Marseille – Algiers line.
Indeed, the deputy, in the company of his colleague Brahim Dekhinet, a supporter “ three meetings with the Acting Director General of the National Society of Passenger Maritime Transport, Mr. Mohallebi and his deputies “.
Meetings organized with a view to solve the travel difficulties of our fellow citizens stranded in Marseille “. Moreover, he believes that this support is finally possible, when ” the good will is there “. In this regard, he cites the additional Marseille-Algiers crossing on Sunday July 24.
While welcoming the Ministry of Transport’s agreement for this additional crossing, Yagoubi believes that ” this rotation alone remains insufficient to meet the strong demand “. Indeed, he proposes to widen this crossing on the way there and on the way back.
Algeria Ferries: “ A paradoxical way of decision-making »
In the same vein, the deputy of the Algerian community in France did not hesitate to react to a totally paradoxical situation in the decision-making within the national maritime company, which is, it should be remembered, a business of a commercial nature. .
” We live in a paradoxical way of decision-making “, he underlined. Here he explains that when ” valuable opportunities are available to Algérie Ferries to sell its much-needed transport services, we come up against irrational and illogical administrative decisions to restrict the number of crossings and flights “. Because the case also applies to Air Algérie.
Sales which should nevertheless allow national transport companies “ make significant financial profits “. For example, the turnover of Algérie Ferries reached, until the end of May, one million euros with the sale of tickets, from the port of Marseille only “.