Monday Feb. 8. 13:15 GMT
UK lobster exporter Barron Shellfish is closing down its 60-year-old family business blaming Brexit red tape and hidden costs, The Guardian reports.
The company bought lobsters from businesses in Bridlington, exporting up to five tons a week of lobster to countries including Spain, Belgium and Italy.
Scottish salmon producers demand joint Brexit task force
Scottish salmon producers are calling for called for the creation of a cross-border government taskforce to resolve the Brexit related-bureacracy problems experienced by seafood businesses this year.
Tavish Scott, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO), has taken the idea of an expert working group to Westminster and Scottish cabinet ministers.
French hauliers warn against shipping to UK during Covid border closure
By Mike Woods with RFI LISTEN
DENIS CHARLET AFP
Industry groups representing French and other European hauliers have warned drivers not to travel to Britain and called for solutions for stranded operators following France s border closure over a new coronavirus strain.
Although many nations blocked travel from Britain after the detection of an apparently more virulent strain of the coronavirus causing Covid-19 on Sunday, France s border closure came with the added constraint on shipping and trade.
Lorries were backed up for kilometres on the highway leading to the port of Dover in southeastern England, Britain s main trade gateway with the continent, leaving drivers stranded and unsure if they would be home for the holidays.
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