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Issue 8 2018 - Freight Business Journal


///FREIGHT BREAK Great strides


Kind-hearted Stena Line cabin assistant Sarah Scowcroſt has vowed to raise funds for Mercy Ships for the rest of her life, aſt er


experiencing fi rst-hand the work carried out on board the hospital ship Africa Mercy in Guinea.


Last year, as part of a donation


campaign for the Stena Line designated charity, Sarah, who works on the Stena Superfast X between Holyhead and Dublin, and a team of colleagues raised £7,414.96 by organising a 34- mile charity walk around the Scottish Lakes, a fi gure that was then doubled by Stena Line chairman Dan Sten Olsson. In recognition of the great


strides made by Sarah in her fund-raising eff orts, she was invited to visit the ship to witness how the money raised is being used.


MEXICO CITY NEW DESTINATION


They shall not pass


Arriving at the Houses of Parliament for the reception to launch the UK Major Ports Group’s new fi ve-point plan on a wet November evening, your editor was confronted with a queue for the security scanners stretching halfway up Millbank. That took an hour to negotiate. Now all I had to do was to fi nd the Terrace for some well-earned refreshment. But oh no, the policeman on


guard duty was having none of it. No invitation, no admittance. (“It’s very high security, is the terrace.”) A stand-off ensued, rather like the shop scene in Little Britain;


the policeman wasn’t going to let me in, but I wasn’t going to go anywhere. (Actually, I was racking my brains for a solution.) Some frantic Googling on the


mobile produced contact details for UKMPG’s long-suff ering executive assistant Lianne Stephens who was able to vouch for me and I was duly admitted. By now, it was now a good half hour aſt er the offi cial start time but, judging by the huge number of still unclaimed name badges, everyone else was having similar battles with the System. Ministers and MPs at the event


Heavy weather In early November, DHL


sponsored sailor Susie Goodall reached the 14,500-mile mark in Tasmania in the round-the-


world Golden Globe Race - but only aſt er a “horrifi c” storm with 70 knot winds and 13-metre seas. Susie made the decision to head


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all gave profuse apologies for the shenanigans; the shadow transport secretary even promised to have words with the Speaker. But why not get some retaliation


of your own in? Next time you invite your local MP for a visit to your premises, I suggest you fi rst of all keep them waiting outside at the gate for an hour, preferably in the pouring rain. Then subject them to an intrusive search of their clothes and possessions and, fi nally, have your security guy bar them entry unless they can produce their birth certifi cate, school swimming badge or whatever. (Feel free to come up with any random piece of documentation you care to name.)


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