The British International Freight Association (BIFA) gave a cautious welcome to the UK Government’s announcement on 24 April of support measures for freight ferry routes.
Robert Keen, director general of UK freight forwarding association said: “We welcome the government support on these key ferry routes to ensure essential goods, food and medical supplies keep flowing into the country.
“Given the critical importance of ferry services to the European trailer services operated by freight forwarders ……we hope the package of undefined measures on 26 routes between Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden, ……. is enough to ensure the cross channel freight sector is able to provide sufficient capacity and resilience over the coming days and weeks.”