Six months ago Transport Secretary Chris Grayling MP said: “We will maintain a free-flowing border at Dover, we will not impose checks at the port, it is utterly unrealistic to do so. We don’t check lorries now, we’re not going to be checking lorries in the future. I’m clear that it cannot happen.”… Read more »
Keep the planes flying and the trucks rolling, says FTA
FTA, the UK’s leading membership association representing the logistics industry, has warned the government’s Brexit negotiators to prioritise the negotiation of aviation and road access agreements with the European Union, if all traffic and trade between the UK and the Continent is to keep moving after 29 March 2019. … Read more »
Post-Brexit uncertainty over workforce leaving business stranded, says FTA
The Freight Transport Association, which represents more than 17,000 businesses across the UK logistics sector, is urging government to act on the findings of today’s Home Affairs Committee report on migration, to ensure that UK business can continue to operate at full staffing levels after the UK leaves the EU…. Read more »
UK freight forwarders association expresses mixed feelings on Brexit White Paper
Responding to last week’s White Paper outlining the UK Government’s proposed future relationship between the UK and European Union after Brexit, Robert Keen, Director General of the British International Freight Association (BIFA) expressed mixed feelings about its contents. “The White Paper addresses some of the issues that BIFA has highlighted… Read more »
Positive reception for Brexit White Paper from logistics industry
The Freight Transport Association (FTA), the leading industry body in the logistics sector, has reacted positively to the content of today’s White Paper outlining the government’s intended future relationship between the UK and European Union after Brexit. As James Hookham, FTA’s Deputy Chief Executive says, the solutions outlined in the… Read more »
Logistics Industry has the roadmap to Brexit you need, FTA tells negotiators
As the latest EU summit opens in Brussels this week, Britain’s logistics industry has urged both negotiating teams, the UK Government and EU-27 Governments and agencies to follow its eight point roadmap, designed to ensure that the UK’s departure from the European Union does not compromise or curtail trade across… Read more »
Logistics industry tells Government: “give us the tools to keep Britain trading”
Britain’s logistics industry has issued a stark call to the government today – give us the information we need to keep the nation’s trade moving efficiently post-Brexit or face delays and shortages of the products and services the UK relies on. Speaking at the Keep Britain Trading conference in London… Read more »
Brexit Britain on the road to nowhere, says FTA
With three weeks to go until crunch Brexit talks in Brussels, the UK’s leading logistics trade body says that its confidence in Government’s ability to deliver a ‘frictionless’ Brexit that will ‘Keep Britain Trading’ with the EU is fast collapsing. The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is one of the UK’s… Read more »
We have less than a year to give logistics the certainty it needs
With less than a year until the UK’s departure from the European Union, the Freight Transport Association is urging the government to up the pace on the negotiation of trading arrangements, or risk damaging integrated supply chains. “Twelve months is a very short time in business terms,” says Pauline Bastidon,… Read more »
Lack of frictionless trade solution for Brexit will stifle economy on both sides, says FTA
While today’s adoption of the proposed Brexit transitional period by the EU27 leaders has been met with cautious optimism by business and politicians, the UK’s leading association representing the logistics industry has expressed concern that frictionless trade is not sufficiently at the centre of EU leaders’ negotiating position for the… Read more »
