Eurotunnel has finally completed the sale of two ships it operated during its MyFerryLink venture, which was brought to an abrupt end by competition regulators, costing 600 jobs.

It has sold the Berlioz and Rodin to Danish ferry company DFDS, two years after it was told it had to stop running services between Dover and Calais because of monopoly fears.

It was DFDS and P&O Ferries who complained to the Competition Commission when Eurotunnel acquired the ships formerly belonging to SeaFrance, which went bust in 2012.

The Competition and Markets Authority said the deal gave Eurotunnel more than half the cross-Channel market, when its operation of the Channel Tunnel was taken into account.

After a long running legal battle, Eurotunnel finally accepted defeat in January 2015, putting the MyFerryLink business up for sale.

It sold the two vessels to DFDS for an undisclosed sum that summer but was unable to complete the transfer because of an order imposed by a Paris commercial court when it bought the ferries from SeaFrance, banning any sale within five years.