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[grupo guitarlumber] 02/1/2004 21:30

Happy New Year

1.29 euros

[waldron] 31/12/2003 11:28

The French Connection wishes you all a Super 2004.


Meilleurs Voeux et Bonne Anneé

[waldron] 28/12/2003 22:57

i wonder how many years Cunard will take to write off the Depreciation in respect of Mary2.

By the different components,those receiving hard wear and those receiving lesser wear. So therefore between 0 and 40 years.

[ariane] 28/12/2003 17:16

LONDON (AFX) - BAE Systems PLC is looking for more money from the UK
Ministry of Defence and the Treasury for two aircraft carriers to be built for
the Royal Navy, the Sunday Times reported, citing unnamed BAE and MoD sources.
It said a BAE official was reported as saying the MoD would either have to
cut capability and stick to the budget or increase the budget to get the
carriers it wants.
One MoD source likened BAE's attitude to that of a car salesman trying to
add on extra costs after having negotiated a price, the paper said.
BAE won the contract as part of an alliance with French defence group
Thales.
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[grupo guitarlumber] 26/12/2003 10:27

cheers kbass

[kbass] 26/12/2003 10:22

Yes, all French TGV's to date have indeed been built by Alstom (designed by SNCF). But ROTEM - Korean Rolling Stock comstructor - holds the technology licences. In theory their licence precludes sales outside Asia and North America - but if Alstom folded, a different view might be taken. On the other hand of course, maybe the French govt would be less than pleased at buying Korean TGV's ... and would mount a further rescue blithely ignoring external comment ....

[grupo guitarlumber] 24/12/2003 22:42

The French Connection wishes you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Super 2004.


Meilleurs Voeux,Joyeux Noel et Bonne Anneé.

[ariane] 18/12/2003 19:01

PARIS (AFX) - The government surprised the market by ruling out a further
reduction of its majority stake in Autoroutes du Sud de la France (ASF), and
said it will use income from other state road assets to help fund a massive
expansion of the high-speed TGV rail network.
Under the slogan 'transport will fund transport', the government unveiled a
20 bln eur national infrastructure programme stretching to the year 2025, which
reverses the policy of divesting the lucrative state-owned motorway network,
although a partial sell-off of as yet untapped assets is still under
consideration.
Shares in Vinci plunged over 3 pct in a rising market after Prime Minister
Jean-Pierre Raffarin called a halt to the further privatisation of ASF, dashing
Vinci's long-cherished hopes of acquiring all or part of the government's
remaining 50.3 pct stake.
ASF shares were also punished by the risk of stock overhang conjured up by
the uncertain future of Vinci's existing 17 pct ASF stake.
Following a meeting of the CIADT cross-ministry infrastructure committee,
Raffarin gave sketchy details of a mixed solution for France's other state-owned
motorway networks.
The Sanef and SAPRR toll operators will remain under government control but
an as yet undefined "capital increase" will be used to cut debt at the two
companies.
This capital increase will aim at raising around 1 bln eur, according to one
of Raffarin's aides, cited by Agence France-Presse.
The aide said this could take the form of the sale of around 20 pct of each
company, but while he did not specify whether this would involve the open
market, he said the government would prefer a single equity partner.
Asked if such an operation could take place in 2004, the aide said "it is a
possibility, these operations are easy to set up... We have to see how the
market takes to it."
Transport minister Gilles de Robien said however: "This is not the moment to
respond" to questions regarding a sales of stakes in Sanef and SAPRR; "We still
need to work on the issue."
"It is true there will be a capital hike, because we are aiming to optimise
returns."
He said the resulting proceeds, which he expects to total 3.5 bln eur by
2012, will be put at the disposal of the state infrastructure agency to help
finance the programme revealed today.
"Transport funds transport," de Robien remarked.
The programme gives the go-ahead for a total of 20 bln eur in spending on
new transport infrastructure by 2012, notably three new major high-speed TGV
rail lines.
The line heading from Paris towards south-western France will be extended
from Tours in the Loire valley as far as Bordeaux near the south-west coast,
with construction beginning 2008.
In Eastern France, the existing TGV line from Paris will be extended to
Strasbourg on the German border with work commencing in 2006 and a new line, the
'Rhone-Rhine', will be built between Lyon in south central France and Strasbourg
from 2006.
All TGV trains to date have been built by the troubled Alstom group.
The wider plan encompasses 50 projects, of which 35 relate specifically to
transport.
In addition to three major stretches of TGV line the government announced
the go-ahead for the project of a major international canal northwards from the
river Seine in central France, a partial upgrade to the TGV rail link between
Lyon and Turin, the extension of the Southern section of the TGV network west
along the Mediterranean coast to Montpellier from Nimes and a TGV extension into
Brittany in the northwest.
Several sections of toll motorway will also be built.
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[maywillow] 18/12/2003 11:23

PARIS (AFX) - The government has given the go ahead for three new major
high-speed TGV rail lines, transport minister Gilles de Robien said.
The line heading from Paris towards south-western France will be extended
from Tours in the Loire valley as far as Bordeaux near the south-west coast,
with construction beginning 2008, de Robien told Le Monde in an interview to
appear later today.
In Eastern France, the existing TGV line from Paris will be extended to
Strasbourg on the German border with work commencing in 2006 and a new line, the
'Rhone-Rhine', will be built between Lyon in south central France and Strasbourg
from 2006.
All TGV trains to date have been built by the troubled Alstom group.
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[ariane] 03/12/2003 19:39

1.54 euros

[maywillow] 03/12/2003 09:09

hello kbass

nothings certain,but lets hope for them that the capital infusion is sufficient for a new lease of life.

enjoy your day.

[kbass] 03/12/2003 01:23

Is mere survival certain?

[ariane] 02/12/2003 17:41

1.58 euros

[ariane] 01/12/2003 18:20

1.60 euros

[ariane] 28/11/2003 17:30

1.72 euros