News / 'Bullshit money-making exercise' claim, as UK ports look to recoup SPS costs

Photo: port of Portsmouth

The UK government must allow ports to bulldoze infrastructure built for planned sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks to “prevent a money drain”.

British Ports Association (BPA) CEO Richard Ballantyne said leaving these “white elephant” facilities vacant was wasting ports’ money and impeding their ability to recoup the costs involved in building infrastructure for SPS controls that were abandoned last month.

“The BPA is not only arguing for the government to compensate ports for the wasted cost of these facilities, but for it ...