People are very patient, he said, but “the reality is when you start to see empty shelves in supermarkets and when it starts to create supply issues in terms of product coming back from Ireland into the UK, and we move a lot of car parts, a lot of pack…
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While many stay home during the pandemic, the trucking world rolls on. On Sunday night, France announced the closure of its borders with Britain to prevent the spread of a more contagious strain of COVID-19. Thous…
Scuffles broke out at the UK’s Dover Port on Wednesday when police attempted to make space for health workers to arrive as efforts to clear a backlog of stranded drivers continued.
A police escort led in a group of cars carrying National Health Service…
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LONDON — Hundreds of stranded truck drivers hoped to get the green light to leave Britain on Dec. 22 as the country found itself increasingly isolated and its trade bo…
DOVER, ENGLAND (REUTERS, AFP) – Angry truckers stranded outside the English port of Dover scuffled with police on Wednesday (Dec 23) and demanded to cross to France.
Thousands of drivers, many from across Europe, have been stuck for days in southern En…
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said that everything possible will be done to repatriate Irish truck drivers stranded at UK ports trying to get to the continent as he moved to alleviate concerns about foodstuff shortages.
Mr Coveney told…
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said that everything possible will be done to repatriate Irish truck drivers stranded at UK ports trying to get to the Continent.
Up to 250 Irish lorries stuck in England face returning home and dumping pr…
The Port of Dover is closed to traffic leaving the UK “until further notice” due to border restrictions in France, port authorities said in a statement.
Trade in goods from continental European markets to and from Ireland will be seriously disrupted by the decision of France to ban all freight traffic from entering its territory for 48 hours.
This will immediately halt the movement of goods through the…
As the possibility of no Brexit deal continues to loom, UK firms are stockpiling and putting pressure on already pandemic-pressed ports. CNN’s Anna Stewart meets some of the truck drivers waiting hours in line as well as a company taking a different ap…
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CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Calais, France’s busiest road freight port, is ready for the return of customs formalities on trade moving between Britain and the European Union and will avoid chaotic queues of trucks if busi…
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DOVER, England (Reuters) – Dover, Europe’s busiest trucking port, expects some disruption when Britain finally leaves the European Union’s orbit on Dec. 31 and is already seeing almost record volumes as…
The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) have realised temporary buffer parking locations for truck drivers heading for the United Kingdom whose documents are found to be not in…
An unnamed insider has told sources in the UK that port and supply chain disruption has reached unprecedented levels. A report in the business press claims that intermodal trains leaving UK ports, including the busiest intermodal terminal in the countr…
The TelegraphAustralia abandons COVID-19 vaccine due to false HIV positivesAustralia has cancelled the production of a locally made Covid-19 vaccine after trial volunteers falsely tested positive for HIV, meaning the drug could interfere with diagnosis…