Brexit chaos

Call for review of ‘vexatious’ NI Protocol after problems with customs checks

Suspending checks on animal and food items crossing the Irish Sea has exposed failings in the Northern Ireland Protocol, with calls for an urgent overhaul of the agreement.
The Northern Ireland parliament in Stormont announced on Tuesday that Brexit checks on animal and food products crossing from Great Britain into Northern Ireland had been suspended after an “upsurge in sinister and menacing behaviour in recent weeks”.
Chairman of customs consultancy ASM Peter …

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Gove: Northern Ireland post-Brexit trade disruption not ‘teething problems’

Crisis in the cabinet? As UK prime minister Boris Johnson continues to push the notion that troubles at the Northern Irish border are little more than “teething problems”, minster Michael Gove has admitted these are significant problems that will not fall away unless addressed by the EU and UK. Mr Gove’s comments may temper the concerns of some: the RHA and a number of forwarders have told The Loadstar over …

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Plea for help as Brexit supply chain red tape ‘strangles’ UK fashion industry

The UK fashion industry is warning of “decimation” if the government does not cut post-Brexit supply chain red tape “strangling” 52,000 fashion SMEs trading with the EU.
Despite annually contributing £35bn to the economy, employing almost a million people and recording 11% growth rates, Tamara Cincik, CEO of Fashion Roundtable, claims the industry was ignored in the planning for Brexit.  
“The sector was heavily slanted to voting Remain because of issues …

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Looming French strike will add misery to those using beleagured Channel ports

Channel ports chaos looks set to worsen next week with French strike action expected from on an ongoing stand-off between government and labour.
Logistics UK tweeted it had been made aware of a “threat of a French national strike” that would impact Channel ports, with union CGT confirming to The Loadstar that action would be occurring on Thursday.
CGT said it was part of a general strike being coordinated with several other unions.
A …

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Operators ‘made the right call’ when suspending EU-UK road services

DB Schenker, DHL Express and DPD will be forgiven for suspending services after struggling to get to grips with the post-Brexit customs formalities, according to Davies Turner director Alan Williams.
He said the three major movers of freight had “made the right call”, temporarily halting services between the EU and UK.
“You won’t be commercially damaged long-term by pausing to get things right; you will be if you let it go on,” Mr …

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EXCLUSIVE: Another shock as DHL Express suspends some UK-EU services

The toll from the new Brexit trading arrangements grew last night when DHL Express told customers it was “immediately” suspending some UK-EU services.
In an email seen by The Loadstar, the company said that with “immediate effect” it would “temporarily suspend” all B2C shipments requiring sanitary and phytosanitary control formalities.
The company explained it was seeing EU customs authorities hold a “high number of shipments” requiring such checks.
Shipments affected include animals and …

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Palletways the latest operator to suspend its UK-EU road services

Post-Brexit paperwork problems continue to plague the haulage sector, with Palletways following DPD and DB Schenker in suspending UK services.
Europe’s largest network for collating and distributing palletised goods informed customers at the weekend it would not accept consignments for the EU via its portal until 25 January.
The suspension follows similar moves announced by DPD and DB Schenker over the past fortnight, both citing paperwork problems, with the short notice to …

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