Ramsgate Port: Channel Ferries

(asked on 10th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they had with the Mayor of Ostend before awarding a contract to Seaborne Freight to operate ferry services from Ramsgate to Ostend from 29 March; and given the Mayor’s statement that the port will not be ready in time, what alternative port arrangements they intend to make.


Answered by
Baroness Sugg Portrait
Baroness Sugg
This question was answered on 21st January 2019

Port contracts are a matter for operators. Operators on other routes (including Brittany Ferries and DFDS with whom the Government has also contracted) will be used for scheduled ro-ro traffic if Ostend is not ready by 29 March. The majority of the additional freight capacity which has been contracted is not via Ostend.

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