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water transport

SeaFrance

Dissolved 2012

Headquarters: Paris
Founded: 1996
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: derivative work: Kjet (talk) SeaFrance_1.jpg: Luctor 19:22, 5 July 2008 (UTC) · Public domain · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

67,592

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What SeaFrance is

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SeaFrance was a ferry company based in France, wholly owned by the French railways, SNCF, which operated ferry services between Calais, France, and Dover, England.
The company employed a total of 1,850 staff, including 1,300 seagoing personnel, and was the largest employer in the town of Calais. Its sister company, SeaFrance Limited, employed 200 in England. On 9 January 2012 the Commercial Court in Paris announced their decision to liquidate SeaFrance. From then on the company was prohibited from trading, with the loss of 1,850 jobs.

Origin

Who founded it

SeaFrance was founded in 1996 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Société nationale des chemins de fer français

national state-owned railway company of France

Photo: Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: state-owned enterprise
Country of registration: France
Headquarters: Paris
Formed in: —
Founded: 1996
Dissolved: 2012
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 48.8567, 2.3522

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 2
Average vessel age: 30.7 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1980
Newest vessel on record: 2005
Largest vessel by tonnage: 33,796
Average tonnage: 33,796
Market share: —
Parent company: Société nationale des chemins de fer français
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to SeaFrance. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Aker Finnyards1

Chantiers de l'Atlantique1

Kockums1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	3
2018	—	3
2019	—	3
2020	—	3
2021	—	3
2022	—	3
2023	—	3
2024	—	3
2025	—	3
2026	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record · Unclassified

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MS Côte des Dunes	9232527	Unclassified	France	2001	33,796	—	186.0 m	Aker Finnyards
MS SeaFrance Cézanne	7806099	Unclassified	Belize	1980	—	—	163.5 m	Kockums

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How SeaFrance compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 3 vessels attributed to it here, SeaFrance is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

France is the country of registration for 53 commercial operators in this directory, among which SeaFrance ranks 7th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 128 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in France.

Founded in 1996, SeaFrance is 30 years old. This directory holds 144 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.