Why Brexit scares Airbus and BMW: Lines of trucks at the EU border

A disorderly Brexit would cause customs checks at the UK border and disrupt the finely tuned manufacturing system. The companies have warned of immediate damage to their supply chains, while new trade barriers and higher costs after March 29 could eventually force manufacturers to rethink their business in the United Kingdom. '[The] worst case scenario would be just blockades, vehicles parked up because we don't know what's going on,' said David Zaccheo, operations director at Alcaline. 'It's difficult for me to obviously comment on that because we're not sure ourselves what's gonna happen.'