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Stuck in Kent: How Brexit Red Tape Choked Cross-Border Trade Bloomberg 1/15/2021 Joe Mayes and Lizzy Burden (Bloomberg) -- Branimir Vuckovic shuttles goods back and forth between Britain and the European Union, his Beep Beep Express Ltd. making deliveries to clients in Germany, Serbia and his native Croatia. But now he is stuck. The 45-year-old can’t find a broker to prepare the customs documents he needs after Brexit. Vuckovic spent this week driving around Kent seeking help -- to no avail. He was repeatedly turned away by shipping agents who weren’t taking on new clien...

One in 10 lorries turned back at border in post-Brexit chaos A combination of customs paperwork and Covid tests is creating confusion for drivers on their way to France 14 January 2021 • 3:37pm Border staff are turning back 10pc of lorries leaving Britain because drivers do not have the correct paperwork, fuelling fears of a trade crisis and shortages of goods. Complex and confusing Brexit rules have left lorries unable to cross to the Continent after their drivers failed to produce the correct customs documents, haulage chiefs said. It will stoke concerns over huge tailbacks and mass d...

NEW RULES for businesses operating between the UK and EU will be the focus of a webinar tomorrow.

'It's going to be a nightmare': confusion surrounds post-Brexit trade tech Truckers and haulage companies are expected to use new IT systems from January 1, but many still have no idea how to use them 29 December 2020 • 6:00am European pop music reverberates around the parked lorries at Ashford’s International Truck Stop. This giant car park off the M20 is where drivers come to take a break from long journeys driving goods between the UK and Europe. At the end of December, however, the number of lorries here swelled. Hundreds of drivers flooded this no-frills stretch of tarmac to wai...

Sponsored by Newton, by Harry Holmes2020-12-11T10:08:00+00:00 The key figures who have emerged to drive through not only their own interests, but in some cases those of the entire country Bare shelves, panicked shoppers and angry supermarkets. That was the situation on 6 March, as industry bosses sat down with Defra officials for the first in a long line of emergency meetings. It could hardly be described as a swift response. Panic-buying had started to take hold a week earlier and, though the UK was still 10 days from lockdown, supermarket shelves were already running on empty. By this point...