News / New crisis for UK freight as France extends travel ban to HGVs and drivers

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Supply chain operators are urging France to withdraw yesterday’s ban on accompanied freight from Britain, imposed after the UK identified a new strain of Covid-19 on Saturday.

A raft of European states have announced border closures with the UK following news of the potentially faster-transmitted strain of the virus, with France taking its ban one step further, blocking the flow of all accompanied freight across the Dover-Calais strait.

Logistics UK general manager Alex Veitch said: “Driver health and safety is our key concern, ...