Kent To Be A Restricted Area for HGV's

Deutzdx3 said:

You're not keeping up with what happened to the ribs stored in Dover, a load of engines were stolen few weeks back. Might be ribs sitting there but they aren't fast any longer [emoji23][emoji23]

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gone up the hill said:

The way its going it will be quicker to cross the channel with a lorry load of sheep in Jan than it will take to get the paperwork for them at Exeter @cattleman123

On the sheep price front, record prices being achieved in Australia/ NZ currently due to very high demand from china and of course very low sheep numbers worldwide so its very unlikely a no deal brexit will affect the sheep trade for long with the exeception of a few weeks in Jan when the new system kicks in.

As for these long lorry queues, are the numbers based on pre corvid numbers or current numbers? because current numbers of lorry movements across the channel are much lower than pre March and are likely to stay that way for at least another 12 months so the queues may not be anywhere near as bad as what have been predicted!

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bobk said:

Exactly . I've through the tunnel four x in the last 2 months , and it's dead as a dodo

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Pieces_of_Eight said:

I'd often wondered what happened to all the handy sized RIBs that get abandoned on the Kent coast. Just fancied one for fishing purposes...

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Pieces_of_Eight said:

Only a matter of time before it gets bricked up

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farmerm said:

Something like 95% of our sheep meat exports goes to Europe, are you telling us that new markets and supply chains to none EU destinations will arise for this material in just a couple of weeks in January? If none EU demand for sheep meat is so rosy and so lucrative why have our exporters been letting us down so badly by continuing to remain so reliant on EU customers, why are we not already taking advantage of this great international export opportunity??

Perhaps this graph tells part of the story. New Zealand lamb farmgate deadweight value is about 30% lower than ours, New Zealand a country already with well organized supply chains for international sheep meat exports... I have no doubts the rest of the world will queue up to take British lamb but it will have to be priced much closer to New Zealand values that our current levels. Perhaps it is not so great an opportunity...

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Frank-the-Wool said:

It's ok we have a plan to use the immigrants boats to send the lamb back! The fast RIB's can cross much faster than a ferry!!

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