Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover.

There is uncertainty over whether new facilities will be built at Cairnryan Port to check goods coming from the Republic of Ireland and wider EU via Northern Ireland.

European money and support has helped to shape the region as we see it today.

Shipping line CLdN says it has ‘contingencies’ for UK ‘landbridge’ delays in a hard Brexit.