As the UK Exits the EU so a New Way of Shipping Comes Into Fashion as Predicted
The Nature of Trailer Freight Evolves to Face the Future
UK – As we have long predicted the exit of Britain from the European Community is leading a sea change, quite literally, to the way trailer freight will move between the two.
With politicians generally being behind the curve when it comes to how logistics actually works, those at the coal face, the road haulage operators, freight forwarders and port management companies, all long ago recognised the problems facing accompanied trailers, with concerns for long delays as new customs systems potentially struggle to cope.
Two UK Ports Celebrate Government Border Infrastructure Funding
Inspection Facilities to Come On Stream by July 2021
UK – Port management group Forth Ports was celebrating today the UK Government funding announcement in support of new and enlarged border infrastructure at the group s key import/export hubs, Grangemouth, Tilbury and Tilbury2, totalling a £11.7 million tranche of the Port Infrastructure Fund. Contractors are on site and the new border inspection facilities are set to be approved and operational for 1 July 2021. Early this week, Forth Ports unveiled a suite of tools and dedicated support from the group s in-house Brexit transition support team.
Many ports have been complaining that the funding was insufficient to resolve all the potential problems which they may face post-Brexit, but Forth seem more than happy with their lot, Charles Hammond OBE, chief executive, commenting: