Post-Brexit update ; Trading with the EU – import and export advice
Since the 1st January 2021, all European Union members are now a third country entity, which means the way you ship goods between the EU and UK has changed.
Under the new rules, UK firms doing business with the EU face new processes, paperwork and checks, as we have been advising on a daily ba...
Read more EU border disruption impacting trailer availability
Problems finding import trailers from the EU is being blamed on the slowdown in exports from the UK, which are currently 30% below normal levels, but with continuing delays at the border, the more likely issue is it is less financially or operationally attractive for European hauliers to send the...
Read more Brexit update; Cross border EU traffic threatened
Increasing numbers of exporters are struggling to acquire critical transit documents, which allow goods to cross borders within the European Union, because of delays at issuing offices and difficulties obtaining or increasing transit guarantees.
The Common Transit Convention (CTC) allows truck...
Read more Brexit delays and confusion causing logistics delays and headaches
The Channel ports may be quiet, but behind the scenes drivers are being held up for hours and even days because they lack the right documents. European carriers are suspending UK services and European located businesses have stopped serving UK markets.
The end of the Brexit transition period c...
Read more The lull before the storm ends – European Overland and Customs Update Week 2
While reports of free-flowing freight traffic at Dover may suggest everything is hunky-dory in the nation’s supply chain, after the end of transition, the reality is that there are problems, delays and disruption, it’s just taking place elsewhere and disruption is imminent.
Dover’s...
Read more New inland border facilities
As part of their preparation for the UK’s new EU trading relationship the government committed to build new inland border facilities, to carry out customs compliance, transit, and Sanitary and Phytosanitary checks, including one facility opened beside Metro’s midland freight hub.
Sev...
Read more Road transport supply chains under threat
As the first wave of the COVID pandemic took hold in March the International Road Transport Union IRU estimated a decline in global road transport activity of up to 20% and a global loss in operator revenues of up to $1 trillion.
Despite maintaining supply chains, especially for essentials suc...
Read more Emergency powers to build Brexit lorry parks
Up to a further 29 lorry parks, from Devon and Somerset to Warwickshire and Suffolk, will be built in order to cope with border trading chaos after Brexit, under emergency government powers, which will take no notice of local objections.
The move was revealed after the leak of a government doc...
Read more The perfect storm threatening container haulage
The perfect storm threatening container haulage
There is not an industry sector that has not been impacted to some extent by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even those deemed ‘essential’ have had to battle unprecedented economic and operational challenges, but few have felt the impact quite a...
Read more Turkey and UK close in one Free Trade Deal
As the UK and Turkey close in on a free trade agreement to boost bilateral trade up to £15 billion by 2023, Metro is enhancing our freight services to and from the region.
Turkey is “very close” to signing a free trade agreement with the UK covering manufactured goods, agriculture and ser...
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