Chisago County Press chisagocountypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chisagocountypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
BBC News
By Lucy Hooker
image captionGraham Flannigan and his daughter Emma currently have a backlog of crabs and lobsters
Two weeks into the UK s new trading relationship with the EU, there appear to be teething troubles.
Logistics firms have paused deliveries to the UK. Exporters point to huge increases in documentation required. And firms dealing with perishable produce say they have lost money over delays at border crossings.
Some of these hurdles are likely to be overcome as the new rules bed in. Others may prove to be more persistent.
To find out the current state of play, we spoke to four firms in different sectors.
Putting UK, not GB, delayed my fish for 24 hours
Two weeks into the UK s new trading relationship with the EU, there appear to be teething troubles.
Logistics firms have paused deliveries to the UK. Exporters point to huge increases in documentation required. And firms dealing with perishable produce say they have lost money over delays at border crossings.
Some of these hurdles are likely to be overcome as the new rules bed in. Others may prove to be more persistent.
To find out the current state of play, we spoke to four firms in different sectors. We ve gone back 30 years
Kent lorry chaos could get WORSE: Officials are performing as few as 200 tests an hour - meaning 10,000 stranded truckers could take DAYS to clear threatening food shortages after clashes with police and blockades
Truckers try to force their way past police guarding Port of Dover as hundreds leave cabs and walk along road
Jeering and whistling with some shouting: Open the border , We just want to go home and F you, Boris!
France announced travel ban on all traffic from UK on Sunday night after emergence of new Covid-19 strain
Decision meant Port of Dover was dramatically closed to all freight vehicles leaving the UK for next 48 hours
Testing, testing! UK and France wrangle over screening regime for truckers to get Dover moving again after Brussels calls for end to border blockade as 4,000 more lorries head for Kent carpark
France announced travel ban on all traffic from UK on Sunday night after emergence of new Covid-19 strain
Decision meant Port of Dover was dramatically closed to all freight vehicles leaving the UK for next 48 hours
UK and France still trying to agree on measures to reopen the border as hundreds of lorries queue in Kent
EU today urged European nations to drop travel bans on UK but said travel to Britain should be discouraged