Exporters getting to grips with post-Brexit processes, 'but new pains loom'

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The freight industry has disputed government claims that the UK has avoided the post-Brexit “worst case scenario” of supply chain breakdown and long queues to the port of Dover.  

Reports emerged over the weekend that government believed the country had mitigated threats of major border chaos around ports, including Dover, with a Cabinet spokesperson suggesting latest data shows freight flows between the UK and EU were “back to normal.  

“This has been possible thanks to the hard work put in by traders and hauliers to prepare for the end of the transition period,” the spokesperson told The Loadstar.  

“The ...