Brexit freight ferry firm appears all geared up - to deliver pizzas

[muriel_volestrangler]

Now, new questions are being asked about the readiness of Seaborne Freight to handle the £13.8m contract after it turned out that terms and conditions on its website appeared to be intended for a food delivery firm.

“It is the responsibility of the customer to thoroughly check the supplied goods before agreeing to pay for any meal/order,” read part of the text on the company’s website.
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The Department for Transport said a section of the terms and conditions on the company’s website had been put up in error and was being immediately rectified.

Ridicule was also heaped on Seaborne’s “privacy terms”, which stated: “Members hold freedom to express themselves in their feedback. Although your intellectual freedom is respected, [Business name] reserves the right to remove from our website any material deemed threatening, immoral, racist, inaccurate, malicious, defamatory, in bad taste or illegal.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/03/brexit-freight-ferry-firm-appears-all-geared-up-to-deliver-pizzas

The other website too lazy to fill in their name in the privacy policy is Wye College Agricola Club: https://wyeagricolaclub.org.uk/legal/privacy . 3 others use the wording, but managed to [insert name here] before going live.

This is the company the government is defending as a good example of entrepreneurship.

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A Department for Transport spokesman added: “This contract was awarded in the full knowledge that Seaborne Freight is a new shipping provider, and that the extra capacity and vessels would be provided as part of its first services. As with all contracts, we carefully vetted the company’s commercial, technical and financial position in detail before making the award.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/30/no-deal-brexit-ferry-company-owns-no-ships-and-has-never-run-ferry-service

[Turbineguy]

1. Their slogan:

"If you voted for Brexit, you should ride our ferries!"

[T_i_B]

2. I have a sneaking suspicion.....

.....that none of the firms who own ships or have knowledge of how to run this sort of service would want anything to do with this mess. That may or may not be the case but it might explain the creation of this company.