Seaborne boss defends ability to run cargo service, saying it has ‘decades of experience’Brexit ferry firm says it will be up and running before end of MarchA former Royal Navy submarine officer who runs the ferry company awarded a £13.8m government contract to operate cross-Channel freight services in the event of a no-deal Brexit says the firm will charter vessels in time to launch before the end of March. “Seaborne Freight will not be a ship owner, we are chartering in ships,” he told the Guardian. Seaborne Freight launched in April 2017 with the aim of running a ferry freight service from Ramsgate to Ostend. Publicly available documents show that it was founded in late 2017 by several former employees of My Ferry Link, a cross-Channel service previously owned by Eurotunnel. My Ferry Link was sold to the rival ferry firm DFDS in 2017 amid a monopoly investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority into whether Eurotunnel should be allowed to run cross-Channel ships.

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2018 13:08 UTC