News / CLdN calls for retraction of 'misguided' and 'unnecessary' state ferry subsidy

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UK-Europe ro-ro operator CLdN today defended its decision to launch a judicial review into the British government’s £35m aid package to the ferry industry.

Appearing in front of the all-party Parliamentary Transport Select Committee via video link today, CLdN director Benjamin Dove-Seymour said the aid package awarded to six ferry operators across 16 routes between the UK and Europe and Northern Ireland, designated as “Public Service Obligation Routes”, was “misguided”.

Calling it a freight capacity subsidy, Mr Dove-Seymour said: “What we saw ...