Articles tagged: UK islands

Where to buy machinery at UK auctions: a market guide

A survey of the British machinery and vehicle auction market: who sells plant, who sells farm equipment, who...

Farm machinery auctions in the UK: where tractors are sold

The UK farm auction market is more than Cheffins. A survey of the houses running agricultural machinery...

Cheffins: farm and plant machinery at auction near Ely

The Cheffins sale is called the Cambridge Machinery Sale but is held at Sutton near Ely. What that changes...

Wilsons Auctions: machinery and vehicles, UK and Ireland

Wilsons Auctions has branches on both sides of the customs border: in Northern Ireland, in Great Britain and...

Ritchie Bros in the UK: how the sale runs and collection

The Ritchie Bros UK base sits at Maltby near Rotherham. How an unreserved sale works, what yard viewing gives...

Euro Auctions: buying a machine and moving it to Poland

Euro Auctions runs UK yards near Leeds and at Dromore. Where they actually are, what to read in the auction...

A UK exhibitor at Polish trade fairs: collection, storage and the return leg

The whole chain from an address in England to a stand in Poland and back, treated as one job. The formalities...

Targi Lublin and Expo-Lodz: the east and the centre of Poland, plus one important name change

Two mid-sized venues outside the leading four. One of them needs a correction first: the entity called...

AmberExpo in Gdansk: the coast, the port and exhibits arriving by sea

Four halls beside the stadium in Gdansk host rail, maritime and industrial events. It is the one Polish venue...

Expo Krakow: serving southern Poland and exhibitors from Czechia, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary

Two pillar-free halls beside the Krakow ring road make a venue that is easy to read. What is more interesting...

Ptak Warsaw Expo in Nadarzyn: delivering exhibits to the largest venue in Poland

A venue outside Warsaw at a junction of fast roads is the easiest approach in the country for a driver. The...

Poznan International Fair: the venue, the approach and the UK exhibitor

Fifteen pavilions in the middle of Poznan is a different transport problem from a centre on a ring road. Add...

Eikon Lisburn: agricultural and industrial shows in NI

A hall, four grass arenas, over four thousand parking spaces and a separate postcode for satnav. The venue...

Trade fairs in Northern Ireland: ICC Belfast and the docks

Two kinds of venue, two ways of unloading and a customs regime that is neither plainly British nor plainly...

Trade fairs in Scotland: the route and the low emission zones

The British leg is longer here than on a run to London, and the Scottish low emission zones do not let you...

P&J Live Aberdeen: delivering to northern Scotland

The furthest major British exhibition venue counted from the crossing, with pillar-free halls and an entrance...

EICC Edinburgh: delivering into the city centre

A venue in the middle of the city, one loading bay inside the low emission zone and little room for crates...

Royal Highland Centre: delivering to open ground

Halls, but above all 110 acres of ground, parking for fifteen thousand vehicles and a surface that behaves...

SEC Glasgow: which hall is the load going to

One postcode, several buildings and halls that differ tenfold in floor area. What you need to know about the...

Empty pallets and returnable packaging from the islands: why on-site exchange fails

Pallet exchange assumes the consignee holds a pool. On an island there usually is none, and returning an...

The last leg on the island: narrow roads, no loading bay, choosing the vehicle

Motorway logic ends when you roll off the ferry. Single-track roads, no ramp and no forklift at the consignee...

Island sailing schedules: how many days of buffer to add

An island delivery date is decided by sailing frequency, not distance. We show how we build the date...

Unaccompanied trailers on island ferries: when it makes sense

Separating tractor from trailer on a long sailing can cut cost and free up the driver. The price is losing...

ADR on island ferries: what sails and what stays ashore

On a domestic crossing inside the UK, maritime rules apply alongside ADR. A refusal to carry dangerous goods...

The island crossing as a separate line in the quote

On a Channel route the crossing is inside the rate. To an island it is not — because it changes with the...

Size and weight limits on small island ferries

On a Channel route the road limits you. On an island crossing the ramp, the deck and the vessel's capacity...

Freight ferries to Jersey and Guernsey: DFDS and Brittany Ferries

The Channel Islands have split between two operators: since 28 March 2025 the Jersey lifeline has been run by...

Isle of Man Steam Packet: freight crossings to the Isle of Man

The Isle of Man Steam Packet works the crossings to the island, including unaccompanied trailers. We cover...

NorthLink Ferries: freight to Orkney and Shetland

NorthLink runs a separate freight service to the Northern Isles and requires any commercially used vehicle to...

CalMac: how freight is booked on western Scotland ferries

CalMac works the crossings to the islands of western Scotland, and a commercial vehicle needs an advance...

Delivery to Sark: an island without motor traffic

Cars are not permitted on Sark — goods travel from the harbour by tractor or horse-drawn cart. It is the one...

Transport to Alderney: a small island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey

Alderney belongs to the Bailiwick of Guernsey, so it sits inside the customs union with the UK but outside...

Transport to Shetland: the longest domestic sailing in the UK

Cargo bound for Shetland spends many hours at sea, and that changes everything: planning, cost, reefer power...

Transport to Orkney: short crossing from northern Scotland or the Aberdeen sailing

More than one crossing serves Orkney, and more than one operator works them. The choice affects the road run...

Transport to Lewis and Harris: Stornoway and Outer Hebrides deliveries

Lewis and Harris are one island with two names, with a real receiving market in Stornoway and a real sending...

Transport to Skye: the one Hebridean island with a road link

Skye is reached by bridge, so no sailing booking is needed. That turns the planning on its head — but it does...

Transport to Mull and Iona: two crossings in one delivery

A vehicle can reach Mull; Iona is different, because vehicle access there sits under a prohibition with a...

Transport to Arran: supplying shops and businesses on the island

Arran has a real retail market and a crossing that weather can cancel. We cover planning deliveries around...

Transport to Islay: deliveries to distilleries and whisky collection from the island

Islay is the distillery island, reached by ferry from Kennacraig. We cover inbound production materials from...

Transport to the Isles of Scilly: cargo travels without the vehicle

No trailer and no van reaches Scilly. Cargo is separated from the vehicle in Cornwall and sails from Penzance...

Transport to the Isle of Wight: which mainland port and how long the last leg takes

The Isle of Wight is ordinary UK territory, so there is no second customs clearance. The whole difference...

Transport to the Isle of Wight, Anglesey and Scilly: domestic UK islands

The Isle of Wight, Anglesey and the Isles of Scilly are part of Great Britain, so no clearance against the...

Transport to Guernsey: customs union with the UK, outside the UK VAT area

How to send goods to Guernsey: in the customs union with the UK (no duty), but outside the UK VAT area, UK...

Transport to Jersey: outside the UK VAT area, GST on the island

How to send goods to Jersey: in the customs union with the UK (no duty), but outside the UK VAT area, UK...

Transport to the Hebrides: North Uist, Rum, Skye and other islands

How to send goods to the Outer and Inner Hebrides (North Uist, Rum, Skye): part of Great Britain, clearance...

Transport to Shetland and Orkney (Kirkwall): clearance as for GB

How to send goods to Shetland and Orkney: they are part of Great Britain, so post-Brexit clearance as for GB...

Transport to the Isle of Man: no clearance relative to the UK

How to send goods to the Isle of Man: a customs and VAT union with the UK, no clearance relative to GB, UK...

Transport to UK islands: Isle of Man, Shetland, Hebrides, Orkney

How we serve islands belonging to GB: the Isle of Man status and deliveries to Shetland, Orkney and the...

Transport to the Channel Islands: Jersey and Guernsey

How we carry goods to Jersey and Guernsey: their special Crown Dependency status and the customs formalities...

Transport to Scotland: Glasgow, Edinburgh and beyond

How we carry goods to Scotland: the same post-Brexit customs rules as the rest of GB, plus reach to the...

Express van transport to the UK

When a dedicated van to the United Kingdom pays off: time-critical carriage, direct without transhipment, for...