He added: “After five turbulent years of uncertainty, we welcome the news that food and animal imports, and border checks, could be simplified.<\/p>\n
“As a major port anything that avoids delays is always welcomed.”<\/p>\n
Portsmouth International Port’s building required a \u00a36m contribution from the city council.<\/p>\n
A further \u00a317m for the “highly specialist, bespoke facility” was covered by central government, bringing the total cost to \u00a323m.<\/p>\n
“We have repeatedly asked for a clear direction on the future of the border control posts, ours is a significant piece of infrastructure that takes up two acres of operational land and has meant a loss of commercial opportunity for the port,” Mr Pitt said.<\/p>\n
Safety and security checks started at the site last year, two years after it was built, but much of the facility has remained unused.<\/p>\n
Mr Pitt said the local authority had hoped to recoup some of the costs of the council-owned facility through charging for goods to be inspected.<\/p>\n
“If the border control post is no longer in use we will be looking for compensation from government to recover the shortfall,” he said.<\/p>\n
He added that the council was concerned about the staff in port health but would ensure all changes take place in consultation with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: “After five turbulent years of uncertainty, we welcome the news that food and animal imports, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-124372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114555377734650059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}