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Brexit ferry contract worth £13.8 million awarded to company with no ships


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https://www.itv.com/news/2018-12-30/brexit-ferry-contract-awarded-to-company-with-no-ships/

 

Looks like well-connected companies are taking advantage of the chaos and fall of the British state with some good old-fashioned pilfering!

 

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Questions have been raised over the Government’s preparations for a no-deal Brexit, after it emerged a £13.8 million contract to run extra ferries has been handed to a company with no ships which has not previously operated a service.


Seaborne Freight was one of three companies awarded contracts totalling £108 million last week to lay on additional crossings to ease the pressure on Dover.
The company aims to operate freight ferries from Ramsgate to the Belgian port of Ostend, beginning with two ships in late March and increasing to four by the end of the summer.
But a Conservative county councillor for the Kent port town said he did not believe it would be possible to set up a new service from Ramsgate by the scheduled date of Brexit on March 29.

 

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