Business group Logistics UK has replied with conservative sanguinity to history’s EU advertisement on the Northern Ireland Protocol. As Seamus Leheny, the organisation’s Northern Ireland policy director says, the news will help logistics businesses to still deliver for organisations on each side of the Irish Sea
. “The news of movement from both sides in the accommodations on the future of the Northern Ireland Protocol is eaten by the logistics sector – Logistics UK and its members have been clear from the onset on the tests which any new agreement must meet, and the results proposed by the EU are a positive step in the right direction.
“ Both the UK Government’s command paper and thus the recent EU’s proffers contain promising rudiments in response to the enterprises and suggestions Logistics UK raised in its engagement with the two parties, to alleviate and break the practical issues businesses and force chains are facing in the perpetration of the protocol. The proposed results concerning the position of needed data and checks associated with SPS and customs procedures are welcome and could reduce administration, costs and time associated with moving goods, especially food products, parcels, drugs and mixed cargo entrustments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.