The opposition attacks coincided with a day of government-backed tests on the motorway and ferry system to see how the transport network would handle a no-deal scenario.
“Our economy depends on these trading routes continuing to function yet [Transport Secretary] Chris Grayling is prepared to rely on amateurs in the event of a no deal,” he said.
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“A no-deal (Brexit) scenario would be terrible for our transport networks under any circumstance but the sheer incompetence with which preparations have been handled is alarming in the extreme.
Seaborne Freight chief executive Ben Sharp rejected the criticism and said the company had been working on providing a ferry service for the last two years.
He did not deny the company had no vessels.
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