Analysis of the impact of Brexit on logistics and supply chain activities in the UK – “Teething Problems” or permanent impacts?

This research aim is about investigating and exploring how Brexit as a political supply chain risk has impacted the activities of logistics and supply chain in the United Kingdom. Concerning the methodology, a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches was used. 404 news stories and press articles from reliable sources were fully examined and then filtered to gather the selected secondary data. For the primary data, 1483 invitations were sent to logistics and supply chain professionals to give their input in a survey questionnaire where 117 of them have agreed to participate. The analysis was done mainly by using statistics and content analysis where specific techniques include verbal-argumentative analysis and the central tendency for analyzing the survey data were used. The results revealed that Brexit has affected logistics and supply chain activities in the UK in many ways and caused several businesses’ disruptions.Besides, it was found that many of these disruptions are not just “teething problems” as was argued but might cause a permanent impact on how supply chain and logistics’ networks work in the UK post-Brexit.