News / Pressure increases on Grayling and 'illegal' Seaborne Freight contract

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Further allegations have rocked the UK’s Department for Transport, with besieged secretary of state Chris Grayling facing heightened calls to justify awarding Seaborne Freight a contract.

A Whitehall source told The Loadstar the decision to award the start-up a contract “stinks” of high-level ministerial intervention and was a “knowing breach” of legislation.

Suggesting a lack of transparency around the contract, as well as the timing of the announcement (24 December), the source suggested it appeared that DfT had hoped no one would notice.

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