An agreement has been reached to end the long-running MyFerryLink dispute, France's Transport ministry has announced following a meeting of all the interested parties in Paris yesterday.
Jobs have been found at DFDS and Eurotunnel for 402 of the ferry company's 487 full-time workers.
The two MyFerryLink vessels, the Rodin and theBerlioz, which have been at anchor in Calais since 29 June following their occupation by members of the Syndicat Maritime Nord seamen's union, will be handed over to owner Eurotunnel tomorrow morning.
Initially, the ferries were to have been operated by DFDS within the framework of a bareboat agreement, effective 2 July.
MyFerryLink, which had plied the Dover-Calais route since August 2012, ceased operations at the end of June in bitter circumstances when Eurotunnel decided against renewing an agreement with the workers co-operative operating the company's vessels.
Eurotunnel also announced that it was leasing two of the three vessels to MyFerryLink's rival DFDS.
This triggered the occupation of the vessels and has also been the cause of sporadic industrial action over the past two months which has taken the form of blocking the port of Calais for several days, denying access to DFDS for about a month and trespassing on to Eurotunnel's French terminal which led to services being suspended.
Last weekend, the SMN manned two lifeboats from the MyFerryLink vessels to block the port of Calais for several hours which led to serious disruption in ferry services to and from Dover.