UK has customs skill shortage, Braemar chief warns
Braemar chief executive James Kidwell — whose company owns major agency business Cory Brothers — has highlighted Britain’s lack of personnel capable of doing customs documentation work. Any return to tariffs on containerised trades with the EU after a Brexit on World Trade Organisation terms could mean serious port congestion, he argues
Freight forwarder does not take the view that Britain ‘collectively has the skills to deal with the documentation that flows from a hard Brexit’