{"id":390951,"date":"2018-12-29T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-charters-new-freight-capacity-for-no-deal-brexit\/"},"modified":"2018-12-29T19:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T18:25:31","slug":"presstv-uk-charters-new-freight-capacity-for-no-deal-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-charters-new-freight-capacity-for-no-deal-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK charters new freight capacity for no-deal Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The British government has granted mega contracts to three shipping companies as it seeks to cope with chaotic circumstances that could arise of a disorderly exit from the European Union next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department for Transport (DfT) said in a Saturday statement that the contracts, worth of around \u00a3100 million, will be aimed at chartering extra sea ferries to ease cross-Channel congestion if the government fails to secure the Brexit deal it has signed with the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile remaining committed to working to ensure a deal is reached, the department is helping ensure the rest of government are fully prepared for a range of scenarios,\u201d read the statement, adding, \u201cThis extra capacity is a small but important element of the DfT\u2019s no-deal planning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many believe Prime Minister Theresa May has a little chance of going through the British parliament with her Brexit deal in mid-January. May has repeatedly indicated that if the House of Commons&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/29\/584285\/UK-disorderly-Brexit-contingency-freight-capacity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government has granted mega contracts to three shipping companies as it seeks to cope with chaotic circumstances that could arise of a disorderly exit from the European Union next year. The Department for Transport (DfT) said in a Saturday statement that the contracts, worth of around \u00a3100 million, will be aimed at chartering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}