Ferry in front of Vegesack: Because the number of commuters slumped in the previous year, financial aid for the company is now being discussed. (Christian Kosak)
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Andreas Bettray has often experienced that the balance sheet is worse than expected – but it has never been as bad as last year: the number of commuters has plummeted at all three ferry terminals in the north of Bremen. So massive that the managing director had to reduce the workload of the ferry company again and again. And now says the company needs financial help if this year turns out to be one of lockdown after lockdown.
It is the first time in the history of the transport company that a ferry manager declares that he may not be able to do without subsidies. No third party money – in Bettray’s words, this is something of a law of society. He has been the managing director for almost 20 years and has never had to talk the way he speaks now. There was always a plus in the end. In the year before the Corona crisis, the company had earned 8.2 million euros. Now it has a minus. Bettray speaks of a shortfall in income of 1.2 million and a deficit of half a million euros.
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-Masks are required on board
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