Disruptive Brexit may create traffic jams in flower trade
Flowers by the thousands at Royal FloraHolland’s auction house and distribution centre in Aalsmeer, Netherlands, November 2, 2018. PHOTO | THE NEW YORK TIMES
Far removed from the political posturing and brinkmanship that capture most of the attention in Britain’s long and tedious departure from the European Union, Yme Pasma is deeply enmeshed in the mother of all logistical problems.
He is the chief operating officer of Royal FloraHolland, a marketplace where some 12 billion flowers and plants are sold a year — more than one-third of the worldwide trade in such blooms.
