Welsh ports had 30% less traffic due to Brexit - shipping chief
Holyhead and Fishguard ports saw a 30% drop in traffic in 2021, according to its operator Stena Line.
Ian Davies, boss of Stena's UK ports, said it was down to the new post-Brexit trading relationship with the European Union rather than the pandemic.
But he added the company had a "long-term" commitment to its Welsh ports and expected things to improve.
Speaking to the BBC Politics Wales programme, Mr Davies said the start of the new UK-EU trading relationship hit its Welsh ports "quite hard".
"In January, we saw a big drop off ranging from 50-60% of our freight volumes," he said.
"As people really kind of got used to the new regimes and the new documentation that was required, I would say it caught quite a few, not so much in the haulage industry but their customers, unaware.
"But then things gradually improved, but we seem to have plateaued; currently, we're probably in the region of 30% down on our [pre-pandemic] 2019 volume."
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