First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford has held a bilateral meeting with the Irish Foreign Minister amid reports that Brexit is damaging the ferry port of Holyhead.

As Nation.Cymru reports, Drakeford discussed the port with Simon Coveney, who has said they’re looking at ways to support traders because of the implications of the trade agreement between the UK and the EU.

The deal signed by Boris Johnson’s Tory government means firms going through the Welsh port have to deal with filling in forms and exporters going through it to transport goods into Ireland are bracing themselves for tailbacks caused by the new regime.

There have also been reports of exporters bypassing Holyhead altogether by taking goods from the continent straight to Rosslare Harbour so they can avoid dealing with the layer of new bureaucracy.

It has seen a six-fold increase in business thanks to Brexit, and in (mid January), Rosslare received (temporaily) a new vessel from the ferry operator Stena which had been reassigned from the Belfast-Birkenhead (Liverpool) route.

More from the Wales-Ireland news story here. 

Afloat highlights that the new ferry, Stena Embla had yet to enter on the Irish Sea route until an inaugural sailing took place last night on the route linking Laganside and Merseyside.