Talk:Seaborne Freight

People

Is Ben Sharp the same person as John Edmund Paul Sharp? Ben might be a nickname. Mock wurzel soup (talk) 21:50, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Here it is: "The chief executive of Seaborne Freight is listed on the firm’s Companies House page as John Sharp, but told the Guardian he had been known as Ben for most of his life, including by his family".[1]

Notability

So how does one make a ferry company with no ferries so "notable" so quickly using nothing but references that are as new as the article and a week older than the big contract award news? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.234.100.169 (talk) 02:40, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

I think it's the controversy that made it notable. See: Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies), "Wikipedia bases its decision about whether an organization is notable enough to justify a separate article on the verifiable evidence that the organization or product has attracted the notice of reliable sources unrelated to the organization or product". Mock wurzel soup (talk) 11:58, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Sounds a bit "man bites dog" - how could a ferry company with zero ferries NOT be notable?! JezGrove (talk) 20:59, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

£13.8m contract

" On 13 February 2019, Grayling's department publicly acknowledged that it had failed to secure any written guarantees of Seaborne Freight's financial security before giving it £13.8m." This isn't supported by the cited source. As I understand the sources, a £13.8m contract was awarded, but the £13.8m was not actually paid because the services were not delivered and the contract was cancelled. Krubo (talk) 14:31, 19 March 2019 (UTC)