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A view of current conditions at the port of Ramsgate in Kent as preparations are made at the site for a no-deal Brexit which could see the port being used to ease the pressure on The Port of Dover
TRANSPORT Secretary Chris Grayling was accused of “gross incompetence” today for awarding a firm with no ships or infrastructure a £13.8 million freight contract to operate in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald blasted the decision to appoint Seaborne Freight as one of three firms awarded contracts totalling £108m to make additional crossings from Ramsgate in Kent to Ostend in Belgium to ease pressure on Dover, despite it having never run a Channel service.
He told MPs the contract “is very likely unlawful and violates every current best practice guidance issued by Whitehall” as the company has “no money, no ships, no track record, no employees, no ports, one telephone line and no working website or sailing schedule.”
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
