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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Chris Blackhurst

Britain’s main freight ports cannot cope with existing conditions – let alone Brexit

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o sooner will we begin to see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, then along will come Brexit. How prepared are we? Will departing the EU spell chaos?

Well, by weird coincidence, on the same day that Pfizer announced that its Covid vaccine works, an email landed in my inbox. It was from a friend who runs his own importing business, shipping in products from Asia.

“I don't know if you are aware of the terrible congestion and delays at our ports. This has been caused by too many people being laid-off in the first lockdown and not all being rehired, resulting in a lack of skilled and unskilled workers.”

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