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UK ports plead for more time to build border posts for new customs procedures

8 March 2021

As more ports confirm they are unlikely to be ready for the 1 July deadline, the UK government is facing increasing pressure to delay new border control procedures.
Post-Brexit UK import procedures are implemented in three phases to ease the burden on the country’s supply chains, but many feel the government’s late-in-the-day approach has left scant time for key structural changes.
Portsmouth International Port director Mike Sellers said despite the port’s “critical …

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Hauliers trapped in ports, 150 km queues, and a Catch 22 for business – UK government Brexit ‘plan’ laid bare

19 September 2019

Brexit’s continuing comedy of errors may see drivers stranded in ports on both sides of the Channel as a result of the UK government’s ongoing failure to prepare and properly advise.
Head of global and European policy at the FTA Pauline Bastidon told The Loadstar she fears drivers may be caught in a “Catch-22” as a result of divergent no-deal customs processes.
“Under the plans, documentation for Calais-bound exports will be pre-lodged on IT systems, with the idea that …

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Portsmouth is a port looking to diversify as Brexit approaches

20 June 2019

Brexit continues to cloud the UK, but amid the uncertainty Portico Shipping, which operates the port of Portsmouth, is looking to diversify operations.
Until recently, the port’s main business had been fruit, in particular bananas – it handles some 50% of the total consumed in the UK.
“Thirty million bananas a week from the Caribbean, South Africa,and South America,” operations director Steve Williams told The Loadstar on the sidelines of Multimodal this week.
“Until 16 months ago, our...

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