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Govt settles Eurotunnel lawsuit out-of-court

[ March 4, 2019   //   ]

The government has agreed to pay £33m to Eurotunnel in in a hastily-agreed out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit over the provision of ferry services in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The Tunnel operator had complained that contracts with ferry operators to provide additional capacity to help deal with any bottlenecks on the Channel after 29 March had been carried out in a secretive manner, including a subsequently abandoned deal with would be operator Seaborne for a new Ramsgagte-Ostend service.
Eurotunnel wrote to transport secretary Chris Grayling saying that it should have been considered in awarding the contracts, pointing out that it had owned the MyFerryLink operation until forced to abandon it by the UK competition authorities.

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