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Public and private support has been united in one of the busiest trading estuaries to iron out any issues Brexit presents to regional companies.

The Humber LEP Business Growth Hub is offering specialist advisory and consultancy services relating to EU transition.

Funded by government, the service offers comprehensive access to various sources of specialist and consultancy level advice, and all at no costs to businesses, and is being delivered by three partner organisations until the end of March.

Enterprise Growth Solutions, the team behind the Department for International Trade business support service in Yorkshire & the Humber, has been appointed to manage all incoming enquiries and to provide a triage and diagnostic role with businesses.

Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce will provide information, advice and guidance on the various technical issues relating to the import and export of goods and services, such as export declarations, commodity codes, rules of origin, and the movement of goods across national borders.

And Grimsby-headquartered Wilkin Chapman has been recruited to offer legal advice on “doing business”. It will cover off the new points-based immigration system for hiring foreign nationals, changes to data protection and intellectual property laws, and also on the regulation of manufactured goods, among many other legal considerations affected by Brexit.

Jon Brunton, growth hub manager at Humber LEP, said: “We’ve thought long and hard about the support that Humber businesses need to help them navigate the new trading environment that faces us now that the º£½ÇÊÓƵ’s transition period has ended.

“We are therefore really pleased that we are able to work with EGS, the Hull & Humber Chamber and Wilkin Chapman to offer this advisory service. These organisations are highly experienced in their respective fields and are all at the forefront of understanding the many changes that Brexit has brought to doing business.