British ports are urging the UK government to financially compensate for substantial investments made in border infrastructure that may become redundant under the new trade agreement with the EU. The deal, which significantly reduces sanitary and phytosanitary checks on imports, comes after ports collectively spent over £120 million on facilities for stringent border inspections. The British Ports Association, representing a majority of UK trade, highlights that some ports, especially smaller ones, have built costly new facilities. Portsmouth International Port, for example, has invested £23 million in a barely used border control post.
According to the British Ports Association, ports spent more than £120 million preparing for rigorous post-Brexit border inspections - spending that now appears unlikely to be recouped.
This specialist facility cost over £23 million and takes up two acres of valuable operational land. If there's no longer a need for inspections, we may be forced to consider demolishing a building that's less than three years old.
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