Femern A/S is now responding to the bankrupt shipowner, Jørgen Holm Christensen. The shipowner claims that he and Femern A/S had a verbal agreement that his shipping company should have been assigned the guard ship task at Femernbyggeriet, and that Femern A/S has since run away from the agreement.
Last week, the case triggered an §20 question to the Minister of Transport from the chairman of the Danish People’s Party, Morten Messerschmidt.
Oral agreements are not practice
However, the parliamentary politician could have spared himself that question. Femern A/S does not make use of verbal agreements, the company states in a written response to FemernReport:
As a state-owned company, Femern A/S is regulated by procurement and EU legislation. The Fehmarn Belt project’s tender is thus carried out in accordance with applicable rules and laws, just as there is no prevailing practice for entering into oral agreements with suppliers for the project, Femern A/S writes in an e-mail.
Agreement without further demands
Regarding the fact that Jørgen Holm Christensen should have been promised tasks, once the work on the Fehmarn tunnel started, Femern A/S also rejects that the shipowner has a case:
In 2009, a boat rental agreement was concluded between Øresund Bådservice ApS v/Jørgen Holm Christensen and Femern A/S.
In 2012, the parties entered into an agreement to terminate the collaboration and Øresund Bådservice ApS received compensation for the termination of the contract. It appears from the termination agreement that there was a full and final statement of the parties’ current situation, and that the parties jointly declared that neither party had any further claims against each other, writes Femern A/S to FemernReport.
FemernReport has also asked Femern A/S whether the company is in dialogue with Jørgen Holm Christensen and what the status of the case is, but that question still remains unanswered.
