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Ramsgate, a ferry port no longer © Philippe Holthof

Ramsgate, a ferry port no longer © Philippe Holthof

End of the line for Ramsgate as a ferry port as Thanet District Council pulls funding

Online Member Access Mar 01 2019

PortThe fall out over the UK’s department for Transport’s (DfT) no-deal Brexit ferry contracts debacle continues apace. Following hot on the heels of the announcement that the DfT has paid Eurotunnel GBP 33 million because of the fiasco, comes news that Thanet District Council, owners of the Port of Ramsgate, has withdrawn funding totalling GBP730,000 in this year’s budget, saying that it will no longer keep the port “ferry ready”.

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