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FREIGHT BUSINESS JOURNAL ISSUE 1 2019


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With less than two months to go before the UK is due to perform Brexit, the freight industry and international traders are still largely in the dark as to what customs checks and procedures will be imposed on 29 March. However, experts FBJ spoke to said that wilder predictions of total paralysis at the country’s main ferry ports were probably wide of the mark – provided that the authorities took a fl exible approach. Freight soſt ware fi rm Agency


Sector Management (ASM) says that measures are being put in place to keep freight fl owing


through Dover in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Predictions of widespread chaos on 29 March were exaggerated. ASM says that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has developed contingency plans which (for the UK side of the border at least) do not involve inventory systems or mandatory reporting to the frontier for either exports or imports. ASM chairman Peter


MacSwiney, said that for imports of EU goods, the plan involves all goods being declared as a pre-lodged non-inventory linked declaration, prior to the


ferry arriving in the UK. What information would be included in this declaration and how complete it would need to be is as yet unknown.


Martin Meacock, director


product management customs Europe at soſt ware specialist, Descartes added that the UK has proposed that importers will need to arrange for pre-lodged import declarations to be made before ro ro traffi c is loaded onto ferry or shuttle services and be able to prove that to the carrier if required. Carriers themselves may need to ensure they can provide


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accompanied trailers this will be the responsibility of the haulier. He added: “The problem is not so much that a large number of trucks would need to make customs declarations before departure; the biggest challenge is the truck that fails to do so – it’s about how you manage the exceptions.” He added that while it had been


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