The UK government has set up a logistics hub in Belgium to serve as a warehouse for vital medical supplies if no Brexit deal is agreed. The Department for Transport has agreed to pay two companies, Brittany Ferries and the Danish firm DFDS, £88.8m to transport products from the hub across the Channel over the next six months. Drugs, implants and stents are among the items that will be stored at the undisclosed location. A spokesman said: “The Government remains committed to ensuring we have an orderly exit from the EU – but it would not do any good to put our patients or staff through unnecessary delays by storing them on The Department of Health and Social Care has arranged seven additional ferry routes for delivering items from the EU to different points around the country.
The UK government has set up a logistics hub in Belgium to serve as a warehouse for vital medical supplies if no Brexit deal is agreed. Drugs, implants and stents are among the items that will be stored at the undisclosed location. A spokesman said: “The Government remains committed to ensuring we have an orderly exit from the EU – but it would not do any good to put our patients or staff through unnecessary delays by storing them on The Department of Health and Social Care has arranged seven additional ferry routes for delivering items from the EU to different points around the country.