The British government has awarded contracts with a total value of £107.7 million to three ferry companies to operate services between the UK and Europe to ease the predicted strain on existing services after Brexit.
One company is French, another Danish and the the Ramsgate company in British. Unlike Brittany Ferries (France) and DFDS (Danish), the British company has no experience at all in operating sea ferries. Not only that but they do not have a single boat.
This new ferry service was due to commence in February, but has been put forward until March 'for operational reasons'.
The dock at Ramsgate needs dredging before it will take anything the size of even a modest ferry. This is one part of the 'operational reasons'. It is, as I have just said, farcical.
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't make it up.
ReplyDeleteFerry McFerryface & Co may find the Channel drained by the Russians. Anything is now possible.
ReplyDeleteAm I missing something here? surely there is a person in government with a tiny tiny spec of common sense? ........ah I've just realised....there are people with business acumen and common sense and decency and a regard for the people....other people's government! screwing us over and laughing loudly.....I'm so past despair now it is hard to believe there will ever be good times again.
ReplyDeleteMore or less par for the course over the last year I would have thought.
ReplyDeleteYou forget the merrymaking. It could be the important ingredient that sends the boat across the channel.
ReplyDeleteI have friends who plan to leave for Italy before Brexit and sort out what they need to do to get back to the UK from there. We have no idea what to do, just like our government.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year Thomas x
ReplyDeleteAnd to you. x
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