News / Freight must act now to prevent border delays post-Brexit, says BIFA

Robert Keen predicts more customs training will be needed

Border delays appear to be the only certainty facing the UK after Brexit and should be the highest priority for the freight industry.

Using a crystal ball to illustrate how little anyone understood about the post-Brexit future, Robert Keen, director general of BIFA, told delegates at Multimodal in Birmingham this week: “We, like most people, have heard all sorts of facts and figures, but really we don’t know any more than we did on 23 June.

“We have tried not to speculate too much as we don’t ...