FILE PHOTO: A lab technician takes a swab sample from haulier George McGlashan, who drove from Northern Ireland delivering cheese and is onward bound to France to pick up meat, at RocDoc's rapid antigen coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing facility in conjunction with the Department of Transport, at Dublin Airport, Ireland January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
DUBLIN (Reuters) - France will no longer require proof of a negative coronavirus test result from hauliers travelling directly from Ireland, the Irish transport government said on Friday, citing very low positivity rates among commercial vehicle drivers.
Irish traders are increasingly shipping goods directly to and from European ports, rather than the once-speedier route via the so-called UK landbridge, as a result of red tape and delays after Britain's exit from the European Union.
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