particularly hard times due to the large volume of trade with britain via the port of rotterdam dutch ministry of economic affairs has designed a checklist called the brics it scan to help companies cope. every day at one on the dot the daily fresh company is in a hectic rush dozens of trucks deliver fruit and vegetables tomatoes pears and strawberries from the netherlands in belgium the warehouse near rotterdam looks like a map of great britain melons to glasgow on units to edinburgh peppers to manchester and liverpool every day daily fresh sends one hundred twenty trucks by ferry across the english channel every minute and the supply chain is precisely timed but people here fear that could all grind to a halt of brittany's the e.u. without a trade deal. eudore sort of overall control would have to introduce controls on all products especially vegetables and fruit sanitary checks for customs papers and that would be a real setback for us because the british and other third largest importer of dutch vegetables. authorities at the port of rotterdam aren't thrilled about the prospect they handle a large part of the