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Richard M
February 06, 2019 at 1:27 pmHmm, perhaps look more closely at who is behind ‘Seaborne Freight’. It’s been around for years as a website, but made absolutely no progress at all in actually getting a service going, and shown no evidence that it has the skills and resources ever to do so.
Ironically both Mr Grayling and Seaborne Freight would probably welcome a legal battle because it would provide an indefinite excuse not to provide the service it has seemingly been commissioned.