lets talk to craig mckinley, the conservative mpfor to craig mckinley, the conservative mp for south disappointed by this development?” am, because it seemed to be a good opportunity for thanet to be doing its bit for brexit contingencies. what has come out today, which is interesting, is that seaborne freight was backed up by a big shipping company from ireland, with 45 ships, and i don't know the reasons why they have pulled out of the deal. i would have thought that if they were looking at the ramsgate— ostend route, iwould have thought {13.8 million as a back—up from the government would have made this route particularly desirable, but who knows? i'm sure the reasons will come out in the next few days. you hate to think, and i certainly hope, that it is pressure from the irish government at this late stage. presumably, it is a commercial company, not state owned. given that it is an irish company, i wonder if chris grayling was well advised to make his comment that he made no apologies for supporting a new british business. you have shareholdings across lots of businesses in brit

craig conor who's our lead planner on the study. he's been working weekends and nights to get us to where we are today, and patrick mckinley, a new manager for the district. i want to give you a quick overview. we recently had a successful first milestone -- first major milestone meeting in which we got the thumbs up from the vertical team to move forward, and i want to say before i get into the details of that, that you all hire well at the port. we've really enjoyed working with the folks in this partnership. steve linda, brad, wonderful to really important when working with a tsoaugust, such as the feds. and you all approved -- excuse me -- the execution of the cost sharing agreement, so we went forward with that august meeting, and it was executed, and it allowed the feds to put 50% into the feasibility study. once that was executed, we have been working and meeting every week in sometimes entities. we have made no decisions per se. we've been working on, again, sort of developing a framework for how we think about solutions and how the corps might participate in a project of this scale, and after that successful meeting which i'll t