"A firm awarded a government contract to provide extra ferry services has used website terms and conditions apparently intended for a takeaway food firm.
Seaborne Freight was given the £13.8m contract to run a freight service between Ramsgate and Ostend in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Its original terms and conditions advised customers to check goods before “agreeing to pay for any meal/order”.
Franglais:
Stanley Mitchell:
Radar19:
This is going to be a complete disaster. Our country is going to crumble.Gregory Distribution [UK] buys ARR Craig, Lineage [USA] buys Yearsleys, EmergeVest [HK] buys everybody…
Somebody knows something, as the money spent by these guys is serious dosh, and would certainly not have been spent if it was all going ■■■■ up over here…
XPO buying N.D. may have been a good investment for them, and also for some of their depots, but it has seen much of their fleet “flagged out” to East Euro companies. Mostly EE reg trucks in Europe now, many fewer French etc ones.
Companies being bought may be a sign of investment, or equally could be asset strippers couldn`t it?
The drivers and lorries are the easiest part to cut costs on, whatever you think of yourselves as drivers you are unskilled labour who only become professional when they are stood on a threadbare carpet in Harehills House.
You can buy Chinese tyres and spare parts but they are going to let you down.
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Wheel Nut:
You can buy Chinese tyres and spare parts but they are going to let you down.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
iPhone… made in China.
Franglais:
Wheel Nut:
You can buy Chinese tyres and spare parts but they are going to let you down.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
iPhone… made in China.
Yes another bloody rip off consumable [emoji12]
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Wheel Nut:
Franglais:
Wheel Nut:
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iPhone… made in China.
Yes another bloody rip off consumable [emoji12]
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The government should have awarded the contract to the people traffickers.
At least they have knowledge of shipping and actually have some boats.
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did they even get to hear about the UK government tendering for ferry services when no one else did? It makes no sense.
Surely the UKG’s due diligence would have dismissed them as chancers?
The answer to the above is corruption. Good old fashioned corruption, fair and square. We’re run by crooks and charlatans.
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You only just realised that … 
Darkside:
The government should have awarded the contract to the people traffickers.At least they have knowledge of shipping and actually have some boats.
Be cheaper too, backload rates!
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IF all this is necessary in the end, let’s all hope not, these ferries will be on longer and slower services. They must therefore cost more*, and dearer, slower ferries means dearer goods for us and our factories, plus our exports will be dearer and less competitive to our EU customers. That’s bad news for us all.
*if cheaper they would already be on offer.
Franglais:
IF all this is necessary in the end, let’s all hope not, these ferries will be on longer and slower services. They must therefore cost more*, and dearer, slower ferries means dearer goods for us and our factories, plus our exports will be dearer and less competitive to our EU customers. That’s bad news for us all.*if cheaper they would already be on offer.
That’s just project fear scaremongering!*
*otherwise known as logical thinking.
Franglais:
IF all this is necessary in the end, let’s all hope not, these ferries will be on longer and slower services. They must therefore cost more*, and dearer, slower ferries means dearer goods for us and our factories, plus our exports will be dearer and less competitive to our EU customers. That’s bad news for us all.*if cheaper they would already be on offer.
Completely disregarding Brexit something clearly had, and still has, to be done anyway to encourage traffic to use routes other than Calais/Dover and the M20/(M25) corridor. At least the A299/A2 is a start in the right direction with the other routes following on. Far more traffic needs to come in further west along the south coast, or further up the North Sea coast. Eventually this will have to happen anyway, when the UK and France wake up to the pollution generated from running from Spain and southern/south western France to the North and West of the UK, let alone to Eire and Northern Ireland via Calais/Dover.
If you gave a class of four year olds a map of Europe with the major towns, roads and ports marked on it, and asked them to draw in the most sensible routes they would not be marking in Dover/ Calais to the extent it is used at present.
The problem is everyone is absolutely obsessed with the shekel.
cav551:
Franglais:
IF all this is necessary in the end, let’s all hope not, these ferries will be on longer and slower services. They must therefore cost more*, and dearer, slower ferries means dearer goods for us and our factories, plus our exports will be dearer and less competitive to our EU customers. That’s bad news for us all.*if cheaper they would already be on offer.
Completely disregarding Brexit something clearly had, and still has, to be done anyway to encourage traffic to use routes other than Calais/Dover and the M20/(M25) corridor. At least the A299/A2 is a start in the right direction with the other routes following on. Far more traffic needs to come in further west along the south coast, or further up the North Sea coast. Eventually this will have to happen anyway, when the UK and France wake up to the pollution generated from running from Spain and southern/south western France to the North and West of the UK, let alone to Eire and Northern Ireland via Calais/Dover.
If you gave a class of four year olds a map of Europe with the major towns, roads and ports marked on it, and asked them to draw in the most sensible routes they would not be marking in Dover/ Calais to the extent it is used at present.
The problem is everyone is absolutely obsessed with the shekel.
And so long as we run a free market type economy that will surely continue? Doesn’t it need legislation to force companies to spend more. And unless there is international agreement it will be pointless.
cav551:
Franglais:
IF all this is necessary in the end, let’s all hope not, these ferries will be on longer and slower services. They must therefore cost more*, and dearer, slower ferries means dearer goods for us and our factories, plus our exports will be dearer and less competitive to our EU customers. That’s bad news for us all.*if cheaper they would already be on offer.
Completely disregarding Brexit something clearly had, and still has, to be done anyway to encourage traffic to use routes other than Calais/Dover and the M20/(M25) corridor. At least the A299/A2 is a start in the right direction with the other routes following on. Far more traffic needs to come in further west along the south coast, or further up the North Sea coast. Eventually this will have to happen anyway, when the UK and France wake up to the pollution generated from running from Spain and southern/south western France to the North and West of the UK, let alone to Eire and Northern Ireland via Calais/Dover.
If you gave a class of four year olds a map of Europe with the major towns, roads and ports marked on it, and asked them to draw in the most sensible routes they would not be marking in Dover/ Calais to the extent it is used at present.
The problem is everyone is absolutely obsessed with the shekel.
The trouble is that Channel crossings either have to be fairly fast, or take long enough for the driver to get his daily break in. When the Ramsgate-Ostend ferry was running, it only ever seemed to be used by eastern Europeans to whom the “time is money” thing was possibly less important. Even then, TransEuropa went bust, owing Thanet District Council several million pounds.
Seaborne Freight trials first ferry crossing from Ramsgate-
Harry Monk:
Seaborne Freight trials first ferry crossing from Ramsgate-
^^^^^^^
looks like a winner to me.
stena shares should be plumetting
Harry Monk:
Seaborne Freight trials first ferry crossing from Ramsgate-
On another note , there is no problem in Calais
They are prepared .
youtu.be/G81zF5Q1cQk