Post-Brexit import control infrastructure: analysing the National Border Control Post Programme and its impact on ports around Great Britain

This paper investigates the delivery of a significant new infrastructure programme of Border Control Posts at ports in Great Britain to undertake checks on food and agricultural imports from the European Union. In doing so it provides an important analysis of how government and industry deliver such projects: providing insight into how legislative decisions and government policy affect critical parts of the global logistics network. Primary data were collected through the use of qualitative interviews with key programme stakeholders. Results from this investigation provide an independent empirical analysis on the delivery of a major infrastructure programme; and codify the nature of the policymaker - port-operator relationship. The findings highlight that the original sums of government funding were insufficient to cover construction costs. The relationship between ports and government has, on balance, been negatively impacted by the National Border Control Post Programme.