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A large proportion of vehicles entering Ireland were still being called in for customs inspection, said FTA Ireland (FTAI) general manager, Aiden Flynn. In the early stages of Brexit, the proportion requiring either documentary of physical inspection had reached


over 30%, and while that had reduced to about 20% in


late


January, even that wouldn’t be sustainable in the long term, he said. Normal inspection rates of EU international freight are only around 3-4%. Only the reduced volume of


freight moving due to pre-brexit stockpiling and the Covid-related reduction in some trade have prevented Ireland’s ports from seizing up, he believes. “The situation is concerning,


though not entirely unexpected,” he told FBJ. Moreover, he added, there are suggestions that many


goods destined for Ireland are currently


Uniserve brings Felixstowe warehousing into the 21st


Uniserve is set to open a 750,000sq ft ambient and freezer distribution centre less than a quarter of a mile from the Port of Felixstowe. Sitting on a 28-acre site along the A14, the £90 million centre is due to open in the second quarter of 2021 and will be BRC food grade accredited, bonded for both wet and dry goods and will offer consolidation services for goods in transit.


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One of the largest developments of its kind in a port region where warehousing has been in short supply, the forwarder says that its significance is not just “the introduction of huge new capacity into a space-starved warehousing market” but that it will make large-scale port-centric logistics at scale a reality at the country’s largest container hub.


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sitting in distribution centres, waiting to be forwarded when either there is more clarity of the situation or when traders feel that they can wait no longer to ship them. There was


an inevitable


shortage of people with customs expertise in Ireland, while many firms were having to designate a ‘person of responsibility’ with regard


to


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