Dear all Further details will be forthcoming very shortly on this TRIAL. My exphasis so that we don't all imagine this is confirmed for ever and a day.
This is what I can tell you right now (it's Sunday, I'm not at work, and don't have every detail to hand). I want to tell you this much so that there can be a debate on the facts and not on what may have been suggested previously and elsewhere. And on this latter point, I think it is clear evidence that BW is already listening before this TRIAL gets underway, since the first thing you should know is that there will NOT BE an AUCTION process at the outset of the TRIAL. That is after the views of those groups who have contributed to the discussions so far were taken on board. Tenders will be invited for a three year mooring contract. The successful applicant will then pay that price for a three year period. There will be two ways of entering the tender process - via the web and by post. The two tender processes will run simulataneously. The TRIAL will run for the allocation of 600 berths, which roughly equates to a period of one year. The TRIAL will be reviewed after six months. If the TRIAL continues for the remaining six months a formal public consultation will commence (12 week written period) around month seven or eight of the TRIAL. As I mentioned above, I can't add anything else at the moment, but I do welcome the debate based on what's actually going to happen during the TRIAL. Eugene
