Dominica: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit met with the representatives of Forde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS GmbH & Co. Ltd) Worldwide Ferry Operations and the new owners of L’Express Des Iles, in an official meeting.
At the meeting, prime minister had a conversation with the Managing Director of FRS – Moritz Buns. He also had talks with the newly appointed Managing Director of L’Express Des Iles – Onick Deravel. PM Skerrit attended the gathering after receiving a courtesy call and contributed to the discussions held in the PM Office, in Dominica.
Discussions held at the meeting, majorly included the exchange of thoughts on the provided opportunity for the partnership and expansion of ferry services to Dominica.
PM Skerrit wishes continuous success to the L’Express Des Iles ferry services for its future operations.
Following this the citizens of Dominica have shown their support to the Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and praised him for highlighting the important partnership opportunities by the ferry services.
A social media user and a resident of Dominica appreciated the initiate by prime minister and commented, “That’s good news. Keep up the good work that you are doing PM for the Country thank you. Leadership Matters.”
Another person Roland Delsol Jr, CEO of D-handyman wrote, “We say welcome to the new owners and let’s do our best to make them feel welcomed.”
FRS a commonly known, is a German transportation company that specialises in passenger ferry and freight transportation. It was established in 1866 and was originally started as a regional passenger ferry operator.
The English name of the transportation company is Fast Reliable Seaways. Since its inception, the company has excelled a lot in the previous considerable years.
From International Business Group to becoming one of the Europe’s leading ferry operators, the FRS has conquered all. FRS provides the services for the conventional ferries and as well as the high-speed ferries, with 70 vessels, that approximately employs 2,000 employees across the world.
FRS transports 7.9 million passengers and 2.1 million vehicles per year. The company group has its headquarters located in the Northern Germany, Flensburg and comprises total 17 subsidiaries that are located in Europe, Middle East, North Africa and North America.
The company mainly focuses on the national and international ferry and catamaran operations as FRS specializes in Offshore Logistics, Port Management, Crewing and Maritime Consulting.
L’Express des Iles firm offers a dependable, inexpensive and pleasant ferry services between the islands of Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinque, Saint Lucia, Marie Galante and Les Saintes.
Commonly called as L’Express, the ferry service company is also known as the express of the Islands when translated into English. The ferry service company has its home-base situated in Guadeloupe for more then three decades.
It is the first one to provide a fast ferry service between the islands of Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Martinique and Marie Galante. It also provides services to all French International departments but in 1987 it has extended its services to include Dominica and in 1994 it also included Saint Lucia.
L’Express des Iles is now known for operating fast ferry catamaran vessels, Perle Express, Gold Express and Liberty that can board total 360 to 420 passengers.