EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Ramsgate is/was a strange port for roro/ropax services.

I had a job in the mid-to-late 90s that required me to drive to customers on the near Continent.
Sally Line had a unique product, an overnight berth on a cross channel ferry!
Leave Ramsgate midnight-ish and as along as you were off the ship by 07.30, (local time), in Zeebrugge, having had a (reasonable) nights sleep and a buffet breakfast, I could be at customers in Gent by 08.30!
Of course, truck drivers could drive off the roro as soon as it docked, presumably 5-5/30 local time.
This was scarcely any more expensive than the regular P&O, Stena, SNCM services.
I also used this service to give me a full day to get to an exhibition in Zurich.
So full (ha ha), day of work at the home office, evening meal with family then drive around a less crowded M25, admittedly taking a little longer from the local A-road to get into the port than at Dover,
although I have also been held up along the dual carriageway between Dover's harbours.

After that employment, I visited Ramsgate, (to examine the linkspan for them), and found that the Dept. of Transport & local Council had been listening, and had built a new road, through the last crest of chalk, allowing vehicle access from the western end of the harbour, rather than driving through Ramsgate. Alas too late. The rationalisation of the cross Channel ferry market with the arrival of EuroTunnel meant that Ramsgate lost its ropax service.

The links on the website show a port desperate for any business,
and this picture
http://portoframsgate.co.uk/exciting-developments/maritime-plan/future-vision-commercial-port-overview/port-concept-view-3/
shows how little space Ramsgate has to park hgvs.