UK shipping can have a strong, confident and global future outside the European Union, the UK Chamber of Shipping claims.

The Chamber has published its 36-page Blueprint for Growth, according to which Brexit could offer significant opportunities so long as tariff and customs-free trade deals can be secured and internal reforms made by the government.

Guy Platten, chief executive of the Chamber, said: “Brexit poses many considerable challenges but I am not interested in doom-mongering.

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