The video was recorded on Thursday by a lorry driver on a ferry docking at Holyhead, the busiest roll on-roll off port on the British side of the Irish sea. Of three lanes available to carry heavy goods vehicles on the ship’s freight deck, two are empty. “This is a ghost ship,” the haulier’s voice says. The footage obtained by The Currency illustrates why ferry operators connecting Dublin and Rosslare to Wales and Liverpool are now cutting down services. The ships had already lost passenger traffic to Covid-19. Now many freight consignments are just not able to cut through the…

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