Don’t they mean “more” miles of jams on top of the already existing miles of lorry queues all thanks to Brexit and here’s yet more Brexit created problems / delays, just this time not only to lorry drivers but to every single person travelling.
> At the end of September, the European Union’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) comes into effect.
> Passengers from non-EU countries will have to carry out biometric checks at the border.
> “I’m worried about EES,” says Doug Bannister, the chief executive of the Port of Dover.
> “It works great at airports, where you have single passengers presenting themselves one at a time in an orderly fashion in a nice well-lit hall.
> “Where it doesn’t work here, is there is no process, no technology, no design for a car-load of passengers transiting a busy ferry terminal on a dark stormy night. It just doesn’t not exist.”
> Port of Dover and GetLink, the group which operates the Channel Tunnel, believe that passengers will have to leave their vehicles to do facial recognition and fingerprint scans at the border and the resulting delays will cause mayhem.
> Port of Dover calculates that the changes to the immigration rules since Brexit mean it takes an extra one-and-a-half minutes for an individual traveller to clear the border.
> It estimates that biometric checks will increase waiting times by at least two minutes.
> “Even a two minute (increase in) time to process a driver or a passenger on a coach through the immigration system adds miles of traffic jams, backing up through Kent,” says Ruth Cadbury MP.
> “I’m concerned the government isn’t on top of this,” she added.
> Between them, the Channel Tunnel and Port of Dover carry more than 30 million passengers a year.
What are the chances of the UK rejoining the EU within the next few years ?
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Don’t they mean “more” miles of jams on top of the already existing miles of lorry queues all thanks to Brexit and here’s yet more Brexit created problems / delays, just this time not only to lorry drivers but to every single person travelling.
> At the end of September, the European Union’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) comes into effect.
> Passengers from non-EU countries will have to carry out biometric checks at the border.
> “I’m worried about EES,” says Doug Bannister, the chief executive of the Port of Dover.
> “It works great at airports, where you have single passengers presenting themselves one at a time in an orderly fashion in a nice well-lit hall.
> “Where it doesn’t work here, is there is no process, no technology, no design for a car-load of passengers transiting a busy ferry terminal on a dark stormy night. It just doesn’t not exist.”
> Port of Dover and GetLink, the group which operates the Channel Tunnel, believe that passengers will have to leave their vehicles to do facial recognition and fingerprint scans at the border and the resulting delays will cause mayhem.
> Port of Dover calculates that the changes to the immigration rules since Brexit mean it takes an extra one-and-a-half minutes for an individual traveller to clear the border.
> It estimates that biometric checks will increase waiting times by at least two minutes.
> “Even a two minute (increase in) time to process a driver or a passenger on a coach through the immigration system adds miles of traffic jams, backing up through Kent,” says Ruth Cadbury MP.
> “I’m concerned the government isn’t on top of this,” she added.
> Between them, the Channel Tunnel and Port of Dover carry more than 30 million passengers a year.
What are the chances of the UK rejoining the EU within the next few years ?