WHILE SOME MARITIME businesses may have initially been confused about what Brexit would mean to them, others felt it immediately. Take REAP, a sophisticated, Southampton-based marine energy developer with customers in the UK, Europe and Scandinavia. This company had had a quotation out for a system involving around £23,000 worth of cells "but by the time it was confirmed, the news about Brexit had hit, which left the pound much weaker... this made the cells around 20% more expensive and we had to absorb the loss" said owner Dennis Doerffel.
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