These costs are here to stay
The news that the cost of shipping goods between the UK and the EU has soared is hardly surprising, although whether it is all permanent and how much of it is down to added costs and uncertainty is far from clear.
Some of it might just be from logistics companies taking advantage of the situation but we also know that the added costs of checks, paper work and tests do make shipping products to the EU more expensive. Added to this is the fear that many loads are made up of multiply pallets and loads from different firms, a problem with one is enough to ruin the lot. Who takes responsibility for the added costs and ruined products or the delays that are not the transport company’s fault? Try getting insurance for that.
There is also a dire shortage of customs and shipping agents, which since business had just 6 days advance notice of what was coming will take ages to fix. The Government promised business a seamless border, even when it knew the best possible deal could never deliver any such thing.
Throwing taxpayers money at these problems will help but not cure them, higher costs of some sort are here to stay. All of it is wasted money, running to billions a year heaped on British business by a political decision by the UK government.
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