The Government has only put up 10% of the cost of contingency plans being set up to avoid major disruption at one of the UK’s main cross-Channel ports in the case of a no-deal Brexit. Mike Sellers, the director of Portsmouth International Port, said that emergency plans had been prepared in case a deal was not agreed with the EU. But he said the Department for Transport (Dft) was refusing to acknowledge there was an issue at the Hampshire port. He explained: “We are essential to the Channel Islands, 95% consumed on those islands comes through our port, and it is just-in-time freight. She said: “If these works were required, reimbursement would be sought from central Government.”A DfT spokeswoman said that the estimated risk of disruption in south Hampshire did not warrant extra funding.

Source: Irish Examiner April 07, 2019 07:41 UTC