All quiet in Dover: The calm before Brexit's border storm
All quiet in Dover: The calm before Brexit's border storm Lizzy Burden and Richard Weiss, Bloomberg Dec. 31, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail An empty terminal at the Port of Dover in Dover, England, on Dec. 23, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Chris Ratcliffe. On the day the U.K. makes its final break with the European Union, the ports are clear of truck backups, goods are moving smoothly and grocery-store shelves are well stocked. Even so, U.K. businesses that rely on some 1.2 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) worth of products crossing the border each day are taking no chances. At 11 p.m. Thursday, Brexit ge...