Thread by @vivamjm

"Sam Blakeman, a sales manager at Rosslyn, said businesses have been putting off implementing Brexit solutions because they have been waiting for the outcome of the trade talks, not realizing paperwork will be required regardless. “That penny seems to be dropping,” said Blakeman

...who described the silence on the other end of the phone this week when he told a major company that he wouldn’t beable to take on their work. “There was a ‘Have we left this too late?’ realization.”

Capacity for logistics companies is so limited that several of the world’s biggest firms are turning down Brexit work because they are sold out. A.P. Moller-Maersk, the Danish shipping giant, is rejecting potential clients while Kuehne + Nagel International AG,

the Swiss freight group, is only accepting customs work from businesses for which it already carries cargo.

Shortages of customs brokers and agents is a major headache for big business and the U.K. government’s Brexit preparations because goods without the right paperwork

will not be allowed to cross borders from Jan. 1, when Britain quits the EU’s single market and customs union. An additional 400 million customs declarations are expected to be required annually on U.K.-EU trade, at a cost of about 13 billion pounds ($17 billion),

even if the two sides sign a trade deal.!!"

More than UK's former EU contribution

Hey ho !! I don't know how many remember my "Holyhead will die ...UK will need to dig customs experience out of retirement/the grave" thread of 3 years ago?

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