Ports call for more representation as UK 'flip-flops' on border checks
More industry representation is needed to determine the future of the UK’s border operating model, ...
While no one in the UK seems to have the faintest idea what is going to happen when the country leaves the EU next year – scenarios abound, of course, but frankly the future is murkier by the day – Irish transport interests are preparing for the worst. Dublin is preparing planning applications for a host of new customs checks at the port. Brexit is also predicted to lead to a surge of direct-from-Europe container traffic into the port – it currently handles around 1.3m unitised freight units a year and 200,000 of those currently come direct from Europe, a figure which is expected to jump to a million after March 2019.
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