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Lessons for Brexit cargo from Norway’s hard border with Sweden
Orje, Norway — With fresh snow crunching under their boots and a handful of papers to be checked and stamped, truck drivers from Latvia, Sweden and Poland make their way across Norway’s Orje customs station to a small office where…
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Brexit’s toll: UK economy at weakest since financial crisis
London, UK — Mounting uncertainty over Brexit is weighing heavily on the British economy, which slowed last year to its weakest growth rate since the aftermath of the global financial crisis, official figures showed Monday. The Office for National Statistics…
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Fears grow: 1/3 of UK firms consider move abroad over Brexit
London, UK — Nearly a third of U.K. firms may shift their operations abroad because of Britain’s pending departure from the European Union, a survey of 1,200 company directors suggested Friday, as the political stalemate over a Brexit deal heightened…
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Foreign Secretary: Brexit may have to be delayed
London, UK — A key member of Prime Minister Theresa May’s government acknowledged Thursday that Britain’s exit from the European Union may have to be delayed if negotiations on a divorce deal drag on. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the…
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Most UK ports unprepared for Brexit: survey
London, UK — Whilst pro-Brexit groups foresee a bright future for the UK as a global trading nation, chief executives and directors at ports and harbour authorities around the UK reveal that, with ten weeks to go, little or no…
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UK leader unveils Brexit Plan B, looks a lot like Plan A
London, UK — British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled her Brexit Plan B on Monday — and it looks a lot like Plan A. May launched a mission to resuscitate her rejected European Union divorce deal, setting out plans to get it…
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Airports, customs, trade: Europe preps for a chaotic Brexit
Paris, France — One by one, European Union nations are spending millions, hiring thousands of workers and issuing emergency decrees to cope with the increasingly likely possibility that Britain will leave the bloc on March 29 without a plan. A…
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Taking stock: UK businesses brace for no deal Brexit
Dunstable, UK — Brexit has British business owners on edge — and that is great news for Lovespace, a storage and warehousing company outside London. Lovespace, which collects boxes from customers, stores them and then returns the goods when needed,…
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If UK Parliament rejects May’s Brexit deal, what’s Plan B?
London, U.K. — British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit divorce deal may not be, as one opposition lawmaker called it, “as dead as the deadest dodo,” but it is definitely ailing. It looks very likely that Britain’s Parliament will reject…
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Britain testing how motorways would handle ‘no deal’ Brexit
London, UK — Britain is testing how its motorway and ferry system would handle a no-deal Brexit by sending a stream of trucks from a regional airport to the port of Dover — even as some legislators try to pressure…
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Post Brexit, the U.K. and Canada can fuel global sustainability
A “circular economy” is one that avoids waste and instead innovatively reuses or regenerates end products. That’s in contrast to today’s largely “linear” economy, in which products are dumped as waste after we’re finished with them — losing value and…
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No Brexit deal could snarl major ports, hitting exports
Hook of Holland, Netherlands — Traffic moves quickly and smoothly at the Hook of Holland ferry terminal on the western edge of Europe’s biggest port, with hundreds of trucks streaming onto ships regularly setting off for the English port of…