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Any port: Red faces as Welsh website uses Bangkok to show Northern Ireland trade
Spot the difference: Bangkok Port is a little busier than Belfast harbour
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Belfast harbour
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As if getting used to the Irish Sea border wasn't hard enough, some hauliers in Great Britain who had not visited Northern Ireland before may have harboured unrealistic expectations of what awaited them.
A Welsh government website illustrated its guidelines on trading with Northern Ireland under the NI Protocol with a stock image of a port... in Thailand, similar to the image above of Bangkok Port.
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