Read it and weep...absorb what it says on the length of time cargo backrd up..then try to imagine UK does not have the capacity by 50,000 staff/IT & space/infrastructure
AND a "Light Touch" Smugglers charter no customs declarations NOR SPS measures
The Australia Experience 2005
“What’s happening in the UK reflects this, with insufficient time for testing and training and, if the parallels continue, you’ll end up with cargo backed up on wharves for months.”
The Gov picked “probably the worst possible time… right in the peak season” to make the switch,
resulting in hundreds of thousands of sea and air freight consignments stranded when ICS crashed, Mr Zalai said.
“The roll-out was disastrous for Australian trade. The government brought me in to advise on how to get cargo moving again,” he said. “I think the true
cost will never be known; the claims process was so complex that, by then, many just wanted their cargo and to move on.”The source said that, for the UK, the likely post-Brexit scenario could be “far worse”, as the new customs procedures would be for both imports and exports,
and involve traders who for decades have had the luxury of open borders. A lot would depend on how operators reacted between now and the year-end *and how government supported industry* he added.
Mr Zalai said: “The key things to consider are how complex the reporting system
will be and how much matching is required between disparate partners in the supply chain, and how flexible the customs and bio-security agencies are prepared to be.
“And customs is one thing, bio-security is a whole other factor, with the aim of these two agencies to
not only secure revenue, but to ensure no pests or diseases are brought into the country.”
Whole Report here theloadstar.com/uk-should-lear…
..& still the UK blindly blunders on in blissful ignorance led by the worst possible dolts, donkeys & crooks who clearly do not (want to) see what I've had nightmares about for 4 years from 3 decades of coalface experience.
And I don't even live there (I shouldn't care but I do)
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God help the UK..seriously. This dolt is a "trade representative"..& apparently does not grasp the basics that there's no external money coming in to the Treasury from tarriffs loaded onto imported goods.
It's a tax paid by the consumer designed as a deterent to buying the goods
UK has so many dolts in power. As for "recalibrating trade" unless it's to form another customs union with another 500m rich consumers (on doorstep) u can "recalibate" to kingdom bloody come it won't compensate (NTB) costs.. esp when the CU also a single regulated internal market
Seriously how the hell *did* UK end up with such ignorant, deluded, crooked twats in Gov?
It's painful to see..
4 years of the same repeated bollox and groundhog day, dearth of understanding.
Is it deliberate? To satisfy an unthinking base?
I'm not sure what's worse.
"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,
Mk1 (Battle of Britain) Merlin engine 3 blade prop
Mk 5 (first with clipped wings version) Merlin 45
Mk 9 (4 blade propellor) Merlin 61?
meant to be interim model using the Mk 8 engine in Mk 5 airframe quickly thrown together to combat the F190A that outclassed the Mk 5. It went on to become the version built in greatest numbers
Mk 7 High altitude version (like Mk 6) with extended wingtips. 4 blade prop
@bencorke is maybe typical out there in claiming EU at fault for "Farage Garages" as is "negotiating in bad faith" (didn't Frost & Johnson, under pressure from Benn, in select committees both state opposite?)
Let's remind people of facts about border queues into the EU
Single Market only countries (Norway/Switzerland ) have long queues!
On BOMB (Border Operating Model Bollox) I have no inclination to read it in depth but from what I have I see nothing new to prevent "disaster area" if not "disaster area with rocket boosters"..for me it just raises more questions? Where is the sufficiently trained competent staff
and facilities coming from for all these new sites? Even if they are available in *any* capacity? What about drivers' hours and transit times? Perishables? any slight delay/increased transit through these sites will render the shipments worthless. ICDs with BCPs should be as
close to port of arrival as possible: puzzled at how they will police/monitor driver accompanied loads to sites. More "smartfreight"? Joy! And don't see much on non specialist goods that make up majority of imports shipments.. SMEs are going to be overwhelmed with procedures
From a forwarder
"I made a precis of the UK’s ‘Border Operating Model, a 206-page document. Even the precis is 13 pages long & highly technical. I feel sure you probably can’t be bothered. It is difficult to read even for the experienced. More to t'point, it’s riddled with holes
So why bother? At least until those behind it wake up & smell the coffee. We have created basic process maps for what they are worth. Unfortunately, the Model displays such deficiencies that I was forced to use best guesses, the experience of my colleagues and myself and logic
to try to plug the gaps. The trouble is, those advising the government don’t appear to be using a lot of logic.
Neither do they seem to be asking the people on the ground who have the right knowledge? It is without surprise that it has emerged that version two of the Model