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Brexit leads to surge in delays, says FourKites

[ December 13, 2022   //   ]

The FourKites visibility platform says that there was a spike in delays to road transport to and from the UK after Brexit.

It says that on-time performance of shipments was significantly impacted by the official completion of Brexit starting at the beginning of 2021, though there has since been some recovery approaching the end of 2022.

In the fourth quarter 2020, FourKites customers saw an average of 33% of their over-the-road shipments traveling to or from the UK delayed.

After the Brexit transition period completed at the end of December 2020, this rose to 57% of shipments delayed.

Similarly, the average transit speed for over-the-road shipments from first pickup to final destination decreased from 5.0mph to 3.6mph on average.  

Both delays and transit speed appear to have slowly recovered as companies have adapted with average journey speed increasing to 5.3mph as of Q3 2022.

FourKites has also seen a consistent impact to on-time performance for shipments traveling across the Schengen Zone boundaries within the EU during 2022.

As of the third quarter of 2022, shipments crossing the Schengen Zone boundary were delayed 37% of the time.

Those remaining outside the Schengen Zone or traveling between Schengen Zone countries, shipments were delayed only 24% of the time.

Shipments crossing the Schengen Zone boundary travelled at 3.9mph on average in Q3 2022, compared with 4.4mph for shipments that did not cross the boundary.

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