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Eurotunnel reports loss, big cash shortfall
LONDON, Oct 17: As the Channel Tunnel prepares to open for ordinary travellers, the operating company Eurotunnel released details Monday of big cash shortfalls, reports AP.
Eurotunnel announced at 47 million pound (75.2 million dollars) loss and said delays in opening the "Chunnel" will depress projected income by about three-quarters for the year.
The company also said it could run afoul with Its agreement with bankers for gaining needed financing early next year.
"This issue is being kept under review to ensure that any necessary action is taken.” Eurotunnel said in a statement.
Eurotunnel executives were meeting early in the morning with financial analysts and planned a news conference shortly before midday.
Meantime, the national railways of Britain. France and Belgium were to announce their schedule for starting up Eurostar train service that will take passengers through the tunnel on 3-hour trips between London and Paris and just 15 minutes longer between London and Brussels.
The railroads will also be releasing their fare structure, widely awaited by the Euro; pean travel industry so. execu-. tlves can assess how much of a threat airlines operating those routes will face.
Although flights on the routes take only about an hour. Eurostar says that when passengers take Into account the transit time to airports and check-in time, the train journey could be faster and less likely to suffer delays.
The other option for travelers wanting to use the tunnel
is the so-called "Le Shuttle" • service, for passengers who put their automobiles onto shuttle trains running between Folkestone. England, and Calais. France. ‘
Eurotunnel is now running those services on a limited basis for shareholders and "opion makers" such as journalists and travel industry executives.
Le Shuttle service could be available for ordiriary passengers around the middle of-next month.
Eurotunnel's financial statement predicted that the company would only bring in about one-quarter of the 135 million pounds (216 million dollars) this year that executives had predicted when the company tapped Its shareholders, for 858 million pounds in a cash call last spring.
The loss for the six months endirig June 30 came as interest and finance charges, operating costs and depreciation outstripped rail freight revenues of 2 million pounds (3.2 million dollars). •
Eurotunnel's co-chairmen. Sir Alastair Morton on the British side and Patrick Ponsolle on the French side, called the first nine months of 1994 "a frustrating and difficult time."
The complicated process of ensuring the tunnel meets all safety requirements was hindered by greater-than-ex-pected , difficulties with the trains, many of them delivered late. Eurotunnel said.
By next year, Eurotunnel promised to show what it can do as a competitor to ferries and airlines crossing the channel.
'995 will be the critical ? ear. in which we must satisfy our customers and our bankers — and thus our shareholders." Morton and Ponsolle said.