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LAST UPDATE | 8 Jan 2021
PARCEL DELIVERY COMPANY DPD UK has said that it will be pausing all its road delivery services from the UK to Europe, including Ireland, as it deals with the customs changes caused by Brexit.
These services will be paused until at least Wednesday 13 January, the company said this morning.
In a statement, DPD said that it’s been a challenging few days for its teams as the UK leaving the Single Market and Customs Union has required “significant changes” to the way it takes parcels cross-border.
It said: “It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe. This has placed extra pressure on our turnaround and transit times.
“We are seeing up to 20% of parcels having incorrect or incomplete data attached, these will have to be returned to you so that the required data can be provided.
“In addition to this we are seeing delays and congestion at UK ports and more rigid requirements for channel crossings.”
DPD UK said the pausing of services until 13 January will give it a chance to “validate the data we have in our system, reduce the delay and give you the opportunity to give us the correct data we need in order that we can export, from next week, successfully”.
It said an update will be provided on Tuesday 12 January.
It added that in future parcels sent to DPD UK with incorrect or incomplete data will result in the parcel being returned to the sender.
“We are very keen to avoid this and ask that you give this matter immediate attention,” the company added.
A statement from An Post said is it “trading fully and smoothly with almost all of the UK online retailers for whom it delivers across Ireland”.
“An Post has put in place a digital solution for all its UK retailers which simplifies the process and enables seamless despatch and immediate delivery,” the statement said.
95% of An Post’s UK Retailer customers have opted to use this digital system.
It said some delays are to be expected but the “majority of items” dispatched through the digital system are released for delivery straight away when they arrive into Ireland.
Stena Lina
Meanwhile, twelve Stena Line ferries scheduled for between today and Tuesday 12 January have been cancelled, the Irish ferry operator said this morning.
The sailings, going from either Rosslare to Fishguard or Holyhead to Dublin, have been impacted by a combination of the Covid travel restrictions imposed recently, and new Brexit requirements.
This has lead to a decrease in both passenger and freight numbers, Trade Director for the Irish Sea Paul Grant said: “Stena Line is currently reviewing its sailings and schedules on Irish Sea routes as a result of Irish travel restrictions and the decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit. Problems in the supply chain have resulted in a significant fall off in freight volumes this week at our Holyhead and Fishguard ports.
“Our business model is based on a freight and passenger combination, so to have the two
parts severely restricted at the same time is putting severe pressure on our ability to
maintain our normal levels of frequency on certain routes. Volumes are expected to
remain light as we move towards the weekend, consequently we will reduce some
sailings on a temporary basis.
“Capacity can be reinstated quickly as demand picks up again but in the meantime we
need to be prudent and efficient in how we manage our sailing schedules.”
After 47 years as an EU member state, the UK left the bloc at 11pm on New Year’s Eve, becoming a third country for trade purposes and customs declarations.
New documentation and red tape is now required between EU member states and Britain, which is anticipated to cause massive delays at ports in the coming weeks.
Revenue this week urged all freight operators and drivers looking to travel to the UK or from the UK to ensure they had their PBNs ready ahead of check-in for the sailing.
A Pre-Boarding Notification (PBN) is needed before a lorry can get onto a ferry to cross the Irish Sea, as the UK is now considered a third country for trade purposes.
In a statement to TheJournal.ie, Revenue said that it’s aware that trucks have been denied boarding in Holyhead, but added that “a significant number of businesses” are submitting customs declarations and pre-boarding notifications “without any issues”.
It said that it was clear that many businesses “were not as prepared as they thought or significantly underestimated what was involved in being Brexit ready”.
Because of this, Revenue said it has implemented “a temporary easement measures” relating to the lodging of safety and security declarations that will help business to meet their obligations and get their goods moving.
“We expected challenges such as this to arise where trade and or business didn’t make the necessary advance planning arrangements that we have strongly advocated over at least the last two years.
“We made it very clear in our engagements with industry that real, permanent and immediate changes would arise. Those who are having difficulties is the outworking of that warning.”
With reporting from Gráinne Ní Aodha
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More like the floorboards creaking from the weight of the bullsh*t they were all spouting last night
Too much bending over backwards to “Good Republicans”.
Ah Diarmuid will ya ever leave off we get it you’re not a fan of SF no need to slate them on every f*cking article
Why shouldn’t he? Why don;t you call out the shinnerbots and paid SF shills on here for covering for his BS every fcuking article?
And here’s the other one who’s popping up on every article! Ye’re all equally dopey. Ye are acting like a bunch of children teasing each other. Yourself and Diarmuid have a go at Adams the SF trolls have a go at Kenny and ye all claim the moral high ground. A bunch of adults acting like a bunch of kids.
If the place wasn’t overrun with shinnerbots for the last 4 years there’d be no need for anyone to counteract them.
And if your so upset numpty, reading the comments section on political articles any not only this, but any online publication in Ireland, certainly is not the place for you.
Bit of originality wouldn’t go amiss though. Every comment is ‘good republican’ or slab or sf/ira.
how is this news and enda admitting lying about the McNulty affair is swept under the carpet.
Back pain or not Adams picked up on the Mcnulty gaffe by Enda.Theres so many fg scandals at this stage we’re losing track of them.
It wasn;t swept under the carpet. The IT and Indo ran with it in analysis
It wasn’t swept under the carpet at all, it was brought up on the afters show last night, it was on newstalk this morning, in the papers and on news sites like this.
@ luke: Just read 2 seperate analyses in the indo about the debate last night. One mentions kenny saying McNulty was NOT his call (contradicting what he said in the debate tself) and the other refers to the leader of the state revealing, live on national TV, that he misled our house of parliament as a ‘faux pas’.
Just heard the 12.30 news on the Jonathan Healy show on newstalk and it was the lead story in the bulletin.
Read them again FC.
“Miriam O’Callaghan was most effective when asking about cronyism. Kenny faltered over the appointment of John McNulty and admitted for the first time his responsibility.”
IT
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/five-takeaways-from-the-leaders-debate-1.2545950
You mentioned the indo, I checked. Can you post a link to the analysis article in the indo for us?
I thought it was the echoes of all the whingers in Enda Kennys head.
He has a pain in his back from the Indo trying to mount him. 40 minutes after the debate last night they came out with a Gerry headlined article.
Rubbish! It was “Joans handbag creaking”. She had just picked up her pension early on the way to the debate.
We sure someone didn’t forget to oil Endas brass neck ?
Why exactly is this news?
as SF supporters would say “It’s the “lamestream” media, vested interests, DOB, RTE and the universe’s attempt to make fun of our dear leader Gerry and derail the political process”.
It was the creaking of the imminent collapse of this corrupt establishment
Ha ha , I thought it was Joan Burtons gee string.
“Who is Senator Cahill?”
Was funny too. But not for Gerry.
back from carrying all that shame…
Senator Cahill. Is that the wee lass who was in the IRA who was appointed by the government to represent them by any chance?
Poor Gerry’s back. Can he not have surgery on it in the States, paid for by a benevolent sympathiser to “the cause” again?
Surgery on his back???? You dont know much about back pain do you daisy. He has had a bad back for decades.
What is so ridiculous about surgery for back pain?
Well Jane it depends on the cause of the back pain. Where is the pain coming from. (ie). Is the pain spinal? (ex) lumbar or disk. Is it upper or lower back. Or is the pain muscular? Will surgery for the pain do more good or bad longterm.
He’s just trying to droim up a bit of sympathy.
In fairness, it is a long time for anyone to be standing up, they should really be given seats. The 4 of them have a combined age of 253 after all!
I thought that the creak was coming from Miriam’s questions we had heard in previous debates. Pity that there wasn’t a live audience to judge the party leaders on their ‘last gasp’ performance.
I have seen the medical edivence, it was movement in rods up the three amigo’s backs. Spineless leaders from spineless parties.
Backsides not backs, curse you keyboard, it’s ruind.
My back is also killing me from carrying the country single handedly through this FF led recession.
Jess can we as a country not come together instead of all this crap. What would be wrong with a government being formed from all elected tds, share out cabinet posts on % ratio per party, if independents have 30% cove then their share. Make them all work for us, for our country instead of this continous tribal nonsense and one party pushing is manifesto. The best person for the job, then everybody is represents at some level and proportionally. Willingness is all that’s required, enough blaming and childish carry on
Poxy predictable text
Well said Joe. Makes a lot more sense than anything we heard last night.
It was not a sore back that prevented this poser from taking part in a TG4 leaders’ debate. His lack of fluency in Irish is only matched by his lack of fluency in English.
Can’t be as bad as the pain in a certain part of my anatomy that listening to his waffle causes!!
I too have a bad back, and people often think I am fidgeting when I am just having to move in order to try relieve some of the pain. I feel sorry for Gerry that he has to suffer from one too, people often fail to realise how bad a back injury can be and the affect it can have on a person.
Warning! Naked trampolining with a dog can lead to back problems in the over 60s.
It was Mary Lou sneaking up on him
I wonder what all the whingers will be moaning about come the weekend when we have our new government? Zzzzzzzzz
They will be saying ‘meet the new boss,same as the old boss,”
Irish govn made Maria Cahill a senator
I remember they took the McCartney sisters to the dail and White House
Why don’t our victims of abuse feuds etc all over the republic get this special treatment
Thousands suffering in silence because they aren’t worth anything in getting votes and all the rest of it
I think Miriam o Callaghan done very well last night and came across impartial. In the past she hasn’t always been able to hide her pro establishment and anti left thoughts, sometimes quite shockingly. Why can’t she behave like that all the time. She’ll get respect from all quarters if she can.
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