01-03-2023, 08:25
"I might be being naive here, but I've never understood why some UK goods destined for ROI were sent via NI."
If you've a wagon heading to Ireland, whether from a Scottish, English or Welsh port you fill that wagon with goods that are going either side of the border and get the local logistics to forward it on from whichever warehouse is your main drop point, unless you are self delivering everything or you can actually just fill it with goods for one or the other. If it costs the same on a ferry from Scotland to Belfast as from Liverpool to Dublin, why would you drive those goods from Scotland to Liverpool first? There's almost as much stuff going to Dublin then onto Belfast/the North as there is the other way round but because it's not caught in the Tory/DUP's spin cycles, it's not really mentioned.
Our Guvinmint is inspecting sod all coming in from the French/Dutch/Belgian ports, as Ree-Smog says, "too bloody expensive", so why would they inspect anything going North from Dublin?
If you've a wagon heading to Ireland, whether from a Scottish, English or Welsh port you fill that wagon with goods that are going either side of the border and get the local logistics to forward it on from whichever warehouse is your main drop point, unless you are self delivering everything or you can actually just fill it with goods for one or the other. If it costs the same on a ferry from Scotland to Belfast as from Liverpool to Dublin, why would you drive those goods from Scotland to Liverpool first? There's almost as much stuff going to Dublin then onto Belfast/the North as there is the other way round but because it's not caught in the Tory/DUP's spin cycles, it's not really mentioned.
Our Guvinmint is inspecting sod all coming in from the French/Dutch/Belgian ports, as Ree-Smog says, "too bloody expensive", so why would they inspect anything going North from Dublin?
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