“We should have already unloaded in France at this stage,” Neary told The Irish Times shortly after noon on Monday. “We don’t know whether we are going to be told to go home or whether we will be cold-stored here. It is a mess.”Neary was one of 250 drivers stranded in Britain after France closed its borders to truckers from Britain, including Irish drivers who use the “landbridge” route, a critical transport link between Ireland and mainland Europe to bring goods to markets. We are going to end up with a whole mismatch of equipment in Britain and France,” said a busy O’Toole after a frantic 24-hour period. Irish industry was looking for confirmation from the EU that certain supply lines and “the essentiality of fresh food movement” would be kept open with “green lanes”, just like in the early days of Covid, he said.

Source: The Irish Times December 22, 2020 01:00 UTC