If you’re fed up with Brexit look away now. This isn’t about the right/wrong debate either.
We do mostly Euro work but some UK backloads. Mostly tauts, no container work ourselves.
A lot of the export stuff we do is from countries outside of the EU. It arrives in containers from the US, South America, China and other places. It is deboxed, and warehoused in the UK. The companies we pull for then redistribute this stuff into Europe. All good for UK docks, container drivers, warehousing and Euro drivers.
One of our customers has it seems, renewal of lease on their premises up for renewal. They are now apparently intending to move into the EU mainland. If they need to cross the channel it’ll be a lesser number of trucks importing into the UK rather than larger numbers exporting. It would appear they won’t commit to a long lease when they simply don’t know what will be happening here over the next few years. The boxes going into EU will be more expensive to ship we’ve heard, but that is a known cost, not an unknown one.
Not a huge number of UK jobs lost, but that won’t please those affected.
I’ve mentioned no names as I can’t find any supporting news on the net yet. We do have another customer in similar position, so that’s worrying too.
The companies have head offices outside of the UK.
If they move out, and post Brexit life goes smoothly, will they go through the expense and upheaval of relocation to move back? If there is a significant operating cost saving they might?
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