Something that seems to have escaped everyone’s attention is that Seabourne has been slowly building up for some time and is run by seasoned ferry management, the Brexit contract just brought it into the public eye for all the wrong reasons. It may well be that the naming of Arklow Shipping as backers, became an embarasement for Leo Varadkar. Hopefully they will find fresh backers and find success in breathing new life into Ramsgate, continuing where Trans Europa left off. My days of European transport are long gone, but in my day there were several alternatives to Dover, all of which had advantages for one reason or another.