UK landbridge

Brexit proves to be a boon for Ireland-Europe direct services

Brexit has proved to be a boon for shipping lines operating direct services between the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and continental Europe.
According to new data from the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO), although ROI ro-ro volumes in the third quarter were virtually unchanged from the same period in 2019 (the most suitable period of comparison, given pre-Brexit stockpiling in Q3 20), the choice of route has changed dramatically.
Now, around 33% …

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Samskip’s new Amsterdam-Dublin service another option for Irish exporters

Icelandic multimodal transport operator Samskip is set to launch a box service between the Netherlands and Ireland, giving Irish exporters another option to bypass the troubled UK landbridge.
The new weekly box service between Amsterdam and Dublin launches on 25 January, which “will mean Irish imports can avoid post-Brexit hassles applying to goods received via UK-based distributors, while exports will benefit from greater reach into EU markets in the northern Netherlands, …

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Ireland seeks its own ‘landbridge’ to continental EU

Despite the eleventh-hour agreement between the EU and UK on tariff- and quota-free trade, the new rules on customs formalities have led to an increase in the costs for Irish importers and exporters using the UK landbridge between the country and continental Europe. Euractive reports that Brexit has led to a surge in new shipping capacity between Ireland and Europe as shippers and their logistics providers try to keep shipments …

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Ireland faces devastating blow after its failure on ferry services to Europe

Being a hostage to fortune is never a good place to be, and unfortunately that looks like the short-term future for Ireland’s exporters to Europe, dependent on the British landbridge, who can expect to pay a particularly heavy price for the UK’s botched Brexit preparations. Some 150,000 Irish trucks transit the UK a year to Europe, carrying around €18bn in exports. Expectations of huge queues of trucks leading to Dover …

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