Eight days for carrots to get to Belfast with complex Brexit checks

A day at a frozen food transport firm in Northern Ireland exposes the obstacles to moving goods across the Irish Sea

It is day eight in a depot in Lymm just outside Warrington, Cheshire and a lorry carrying frozen carrots and mixed herbs is still waiting for clearance to board a ferry from Birkenhead to Belfast.

Six separate customers, supermarkets and corner stores have other consignments on truck, all stuck in Lymm because the paperwork for a single pallet of carrots is missing key information.