European trade: the impact of CBAM and potential UK trade deals

Why are some figures in the freight industry claiming that CBAM (The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) will have a bigger impact on traders than Brexit? And what kind of trade deals could the UK’s new government try to strike in 2025?  To gain valuable insights into these questions, we spoke to Geoff Yates, Commercial Director of Espace Global Forwarding. Yates, who has been in the forwarding business for over two decades, also spoke in detail about the importance of maintaining carrier relationships - especially as logistics processes become ever more digitised and automated.