News / Ports call for more representation as UK 'flip-flops' on border checks

Hull's border control post. Credit: Spencer Engineering

More industry representation is needed to determine the future of the UK’s border operating model, following the scrapping of planned phytosanitary checks.

The British Port Association’s director of policy and external affairs, Mark Simmonds, said that during the development of now-scrapped border control posts (BCPs), it had been “difficult” to get answers from government on how to proceed.

“Officials obviously had a very difficult task and were having to find novel solutions very quickly,” Mr Simmonds told The Loadstar.

“But the difficulty for ...