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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