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Originally Posted by ianch99
I cannot see any ferries in this fleet? The contract, as reported, was to provide RORO ferries?
UK to spend £103m on no-deal ferries
So maybe the "narrative about them giving a shipping contract to a company with no ships" is still accurate? |
There’s little point in bolding words that were written by a BBC journalist. As you’ve correctly surmised, whether or not the shipping contractors directly own the ships they would use is a point of interest. That being the case, you would need to discover whether the DfT or any of the contractors (not the BBC) ever claimed they already directly owned any Ro-Ro ferries. From there you would need to determine whether or not it’s a matter of concern whether an experienced shipping company owns a ship or leases one to fulfil a particular contract.
Or you could just ditch the pursuit of facts and cling to the narrative that the stupid Tories wanted to give money to people who couldn’t do the job they needed done in an emergency.