Surprisingly few companies have prepared for Brexit – Some seem to think it doesn’t concern them!
How have you experienced Brexit? Are you loosing much due to Brexit? Things at NTEX must have been much easier now when a hard Brexit was avoided? These are only a few of the questions my colleagues and I have received after new year’s. The answer is simple: It will become tougher, more time consuming and more expensive than before.
The most startling is that so few companies are prepared on what the UK’s exit from the European Union really means when it comes to transports to and from the British Isles. This goes for all industries. And companies of all sizes. Fact of the matter is that more large European companies acts as if this doesn’t concern them. But it will, mark my words. Many companies will be utterly unpleasantly surprised.
The English companies are among those worse prepared. They have not prioritized this at all. This will definitely have disastrous consequences during the year.
“Will we really need these forms? Should we really all of a sudden need to declare customs for our goods which we have imported/exported in the same way for ages?”.
Yes, you do. And before new protocols are in place and this bureaucracy is managed in an easy and natural way, there will be chaos, queues and other time consuming processes.
During the past year’s last months, many chose to stock up on goods and other which they normally import or export from the UK. This has led to the pressure on the British boarder in the beginning of this year has been unusually low. In fact, you would have to go years back in time to see such a low traffic to and from the British boarder as we saw the first few weeks of the year. But they have already, at boarder control, declined several trailers and cars without the proper documentation for the goods they carried.
And it will get even worse. We will have to count with chaos and confusion.
But as I have said before; NTEX is well prepared. We have already trained our employees in and outside of the UK to meet this challenge, and to assists old as well as new customers.
Thomas