SVP for Global Communications at Global Cold Chain Alliance - representing businesses that move goods through the temperature controlled supply chain
Joined April 2010
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Shane Brennan retweeted
29 Jul 2025
EXCLUSIVE
👗Billions of pounds of imports...
↗️Rising by more than 50% a year...
🛬Planes stuffed with cheap clothes...
🇨🇳And a loophole saving Chinese companies from £billions of UK taxes.
Behind the scenes of one of the biggest stories in the modern economy: e-commerce
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#britishairways #lhr excelling themselves this morning - place a full size boeing that has travelled 8hrs on a remote bus stand and have no buses - waited nearly 45mins to disembark so far - shockingly poor
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Shane Brennan retweeted
31 Oct 2024
In an attempt to throw some light on things…some thoughts on yesterday’s Budget announcement on Inheritance Tax Reliefs (APR/BPR) and farm businesses… (1/)
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Shane Brennan retweeted
17 Sep 2024
"Concerns from suppliers that they could lead to higher prices for shoppers" - it's not the controls that would lead to higher prices.
The decisions that lead to higher prices were taken years ago we're just still in denial
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Shane Brennan retweeted
18 Jul 2024
RE this: the case for modular housing. Rule of thumb is you need ratio of one contruction work per completed house (so a 300k workforce delivers 300k home/year). BUT if you build modular, in factories, you need about half the number of workers. (UK only has one modular factory)
18 Jul 2024
Killer chart on construction worker shortage...via.
To build 300k houses, estimated industry needs to recruit 17k more builders a year, every year, between 2023-2030. In 2016-2023 the average was 6k.
Mountains to climb.
makeuk.org/insights/reports/…
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6 Jul 2024
This is England 🏴 ❤️❤️
6 Jul 2024
Scenes at Edgbaston where India are playing Pakistan but people are watching the England game.
2 sets of rival supporters united by their love of England!
#PakvsInd #ENGSUI #comeonengland #england
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18 Jun 2024
Vet alignment, may also not remove need for checks, the single biggest concern of EU is protection of single market from ‘backdoor imports’ of foods like chlorine chicken and hormone beef - EU would want alignment some kind of reassurance on food trade deals UK-> RoW
18 Jun 2024
Labour is expected to do that, and per @jundu_econ at Aston, that could lead to a 22% uplift in food exports to EU, but even then, in context (h/t @JohnSpringford) is not gamechanging...that'd by c£2bn a year. UK goods exports to EU c£150bn. /5
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Shane Brennan retweeted
18 Jun 2024
Labour is expected to do that, and per @jundu_econ at Aston, that could lead to a 22% uplift in food exports to EU, but even then, in context (h/t @JohnSpringford) is not gamechanging...that'd by c£2bn a year. UK goods exports to EU c£150bn. /5
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6 Jun 2024
Well done Abi - proud, fearless reporting getting the recognition you deserve
Just wanted to thank every single person who has sent me messages of support or responded to critics since we published THAT story. I've missed loads.
Your backing & the fact that so many women & girls have shared their own experiences has kept me going amid the friendly fire.
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Just wanted to thank every single person who has sent me messages of support or responded to critics since we published THAT story. I've missed loads.
Your backing & the fact that so many women & girls have shared their own experiences has kept me going amid the friendly fire.
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Shane Brennan retweeted
5 Jun 2024
What Brussels and Washington don't want to hear - but need to...
"The inadvertent result of rising protectionism in the US and Europe could be to drive many emerging markets into China’s hands."
You can't compete globally from behind high walls.
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Shane Brennan retweeted
30 May 2024
Next UK government must pursue better EU trade relations, say business group & grandees.
🇬🇧 Biz still being hit with costly new Brexit changes
🇬🇧 UK “must face reality”
🇬🇧 “Biggest act of economic & reputational self harm in modern history”
w/ @pmdfoster
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Shane Brennan retweeted
25 May 2024
Theresa May was a genius campaigner next to this. Someone ask Sunak how this will apply in NI...
25 May 2024
The brave new Sunak policy, compulsory national service for all 18 year olds - what he calls “military” and “civic” - may or may not be sensible. But announcing it on day four of an election campaign, out of a clear blue sky with no prior debate, or attempt to make the case, could be seen as a little impulsive. Here is the Tory Party’s own summary: “The Conservatives are today announcing mandatory National Service for every eighteen year old – they will be able to choose between a full-time placement over 12 months in the armed forces or one weekend per month for a year volunteering in their community.”
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Shane Brennan retweeted
23 May 2024
I wondered whether I would do this, when the time came. But there don’t seem to be many tales of him as a person going round. And, for reasons that will become apparent, I’ll always be grateful. So anyway here it is:
A 🧵on the personal kindness of @Keir_Starmer
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20 May 2024
On the money as ever @DavidHenigUK
Having just finished the latest @ShippersUnbound epic - it is so embarrassing to see the naive, superficial and unserious nature of our leadership - a fundamental inability to make real world decisions and put in the work
20 May 2024
Time to give a bit of focus to an upcoming Brexit muddle, because all indications from both Labour and EU are that an SPS agreement is already sinking into confusion - and it is the fault of both sides. But not for the ECJ reasoning of the headline. politico.eu/article/eu-labou…
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Shane Brennan retweeted
20 May 2024
Time to give a bit of focus to an upcoming Brexit muddle, because all indications from both Labour and EU are that an SPS agreement is already sinking into confusion - and it is the fault of both sides. But not for the ECJ reasoning of the headline. politico.eu/article/eu-labou…
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Shane Brennan retweeted
20 May 2024
TL:DR - Labour has a long way to go to understand how to build the stronger UK-EU relationship. But so does the EU. There's a lot that needs to be reset in the relationship. That could happen after everyone's elections. But it will take quite some work.
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25 Apr 2024
Vet alignment would remove 90% of the friction in post-Brexit food trade - BUT - the only model that really works is UK ‘taking’ EU food rules - a pretty hard sell politically - and if agreed requires a level of cooperation and strategic delivery UK has not yet proved capable of
25 Apr 2024
🚨🇪🇺🚨A UK-EU vet deal could boost British agrifood exports to Europe by more than 22 per cent — new research by @jundu_econ @gmssngr — via @ft. 1/2
Paper: shorturl.at/mnIO5
Story: on.ft.com/4baNZzW
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Shane Brennan retweeted
10 Apr 2024
🗣️@ColdChainShane tells us of the great successes that the @gccaorg 🧊 has achieved recently: “We are significantly more #efficient than 5 years ago, we consume less energy, release less #CO2 and have become more #transparent. But, more importantly, we became more #resilient”
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Shane Brennan retweeted
11 Mar 2024
🚨BREAKING🚨
UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest since 1879, new @CarbonBrief reveals
💷Emissions now 53% below 1990, as GDP up 82%
❤️🔥Drop in 2023 largely unrelated to policy
⛰️Coal now lowest since 1730s (!)
🚗Transport is largest sector, then buildings
⚡️Power now likely emits less than farms🐄
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