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Brexit continues to cloud the UK, but amid the uncertainty Portico Shipping, which operates the port of Portsmouth, is looking to diversify operations.  

Until recently, the port’s main business had been fruit, in particular bananas – it handles some 50% of the total consumed in the UK.   

“Thirty million bananas a ...

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