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Issue 1 2018 - Freight Business Journal


///FREIGHT BREAK Floating voters


Our esteemed and much-loved parliamentarians


are facing a


dilemma – where to put themselves while the crumbling Houses of Parliament are shut down for urgently needed repairs over the next few months. As luck will have it, the need for


an alternative comes just at a point when the Houses of Commons and Lords will be exceptionally busy with Brexit bills. All the terrestrial alternatives suggested so far have


the drawback of expense, as well as being a security nightmare. However, engineer Tim Beckett has suggested a low-cost alternative – use the old Woolwich ferries as a floating Palace of Westminster. The soon-to-be-replaced vessels,


while dating from the early 1960s are in excellent structural condition and the conversion cost would be a mere (remember we’re talking Government spending here) £55 million, according to the Evening


Standard. If that sounds a lot, consider that the current plan to create a spare chamber has been put at around £1 billion. As well as being a bargain


financially, the Houseboat of Parliament has one further advantage. If we sense again that our legislators are getting themselves unduly worked up – say, an independence referendum for the Isle of Wight, or increasing the carrier bag tax to £5 – a tug could be quietly attached and the whole lot towed out to the middle of the North Sea.


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Round the world sailors are a breed apart. Not only do they need to battle force 10 gales in the middle of the oceans, but a round-the- world voyage such as the Golden Globe means essentially no human contact for anything up to 300 days. Think of the logistics of having to carrying everything you are going to eat or consume for nine months with you in about the same space as a small caravan. At


the launch of her DHL-


sponsored yacht at the London Boat Show, round-the-world sailor Susie Goodall gave us something of an insight of the meticulous preparations needed to get round the world under sail. In fairness, ready meals have


come on a bit since the pioneering days of round the world racing in the 1960s when there wasn’t much on offer beyond tinned stuff; the tins all had to be varnished to prevent them from rusting away in the salt-laden air. Modern techniques such as freeze-drying have to some extent rescued the


long distance yachts-person from the terminal monotony of endless tins of corned beef. However Ms Goodall did though


reveal an interesting aspect of her plans. She is planning to have chickpeas with virtually every meal. That’s every meal, every day. For nine months. By the time the finish line comes


into sight, she won’t need to hoist the sails.


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