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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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And of the fact that he took countermeasures and will continue to do so. There were seven special timetables due to the pandemic and its consequences last year alone. Sometimes the ferry manager reduced the number of ships, sometimes he slowed the pace at which they sail. Or he temporarily stopped operations on a route during the night. He has never gone as far as now: There are no longer any ferries between Blumenthal and Motzen during the day. This should continue until the end of the month – and thus longer than most interventions in the timetable before.

It is an incision that Bettray has long tried to avoid somehow. He spoke with the crews at the ferry station, who are now on short-time work, with the works council and the shipyards that have their halls directly at the pier. But in the end, he says, it was the numbers that tipped the scales to shut down the ferry station for 16 days. Bettray shows tables with numbers, few of which have a positive sign. In the first week of January alone, the number of cars sold to investors fell by up to 33 percent.

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The fact that Blumenthal-Motzen was hit has to do with the fact that there would have been more people affected at the other ferry points, because Vegesack-Lemwerder and Farge-Berne are served by more commuters. Bettray knew that there would still be criticism, especially from the pedestrians and cyclists on this route. He spoke to them too. For example about the monthly ticket for cars, which you get at half price because you now have longer distances to the remaining investors. And about the fact that he tried in vain to get pure passenger ships as a replacement.

The ferry station without ferry service not only employs commuters, but also more and more politicians on both sides of the banks of the Weser. Parties from the north of Bremen and the Wesermasch want the ferries between Blumenthal and Motzen to run at least by the hour – and the company receives financial help. Bettray says she is delighted with the debate that has now started. He sees it as proof of how important the ferries are for people. He can only reverse the temporary suspension of the ferry station’s operation.

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Because it is coordinated with the Federal Employment Agency, where Bettray had to apply for short-time working allowance for 16 out of 100 employees of the ferry company. Therefore, the ferry between Blumenthal and Motzen cannot be used again in the next few days, even if Bremen and the Wesermarsch district would immediately pay subsidies. The contract with the employment agency applies, if you will – and it runs until the end of January. From February, Bettray believes, other agreements will be possible because the legislator has changed the modalities for short-time work.

Bettray can’t say how many more times he’ll have to request it in the next few months. Just as little, whether after one suspension of operations at the ferry station, which brings around 45,000 euros, the next follows. Or whether the prices for tickets are rising faster this year than they were last year. The managing director says that he basically only knows one thing: that the company cannot continue as it did in 2020 in 2021. Last year he was able to go to the company’s reserves. In this one, says Bettray, he can no longer do that.

The ferry boss is therefore relying on the parties to discuss financial aid – and discussions that he wants to have in the next few days and weeks. Bettray is preparing for the next board meeting. In March he wants to present the latest figures to the shareholders. Bettray then speaks to those who ultimately decide on grants. The shareholders are Bremen and the Wesermarsch district.

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