port, you are facing a weight of maybe a couple of hours to get through the french passport controls. now, but has doubled in the past hour, so it gives you a sense of the type of volume that we are talking about wait. the key issueis are talking about wait. the key issue is just going to are talking about wait. the key issue isjust going to be how are talking about wait. the key issue is just going to be how well staffed the french border controls are today. let me does show you the very latest you can see lorries going into the port. they are being let in at intervals, and then beyond those lorries, that is where the tourist traffic is starting to cure, hoping to get on ferries, and we have been speaking to some people trying to get around dover this morning, eitherto trying to get around dover this morning, either to go to work in this area or to try and get on board a ferry. some are having a difficult time. ., ., , ., ., time. horrendous at the moment. it wasn t too ba
after the terrible disruption from yesterday and all the impact that it had on travellers and truck drivers and our local communities, i m very pleased that police aux frontieres have turned up with a strong complement of officers to man the booths. we ve had 12 in from the early hours of this morning, we ve got another four on the way, and so the processing time through the port has improved. congestion has been building around neighbouring folkestone on the a20. that is having a knock on effect on eurotunnel services, too. from leaving the junction 12 of the motorway, it took us seven hours to get to the terminal, which is about two miles, i think. the company is adamant that some of the delays are beyond its control. when the channel tunnel was built, there were no requirements for passport controls, no requirements for customs controls on goods moving backwards and forwards between the uk and france, and that is different now. so the introduction of controls has some effect on the
and a major incident at the port of dover. what all this suggests though is that the infrastructure that is in place to get people from the uk to france and back again is very fragile, that it does not take much for things to go wrong and to see the chaos that we are seeing. is this something we should just expect more of as more people decide to travel post covid and the pandemic, and there is more demands on the services of ferries and the eurotunnel? i think you have to look at the way the infrastructure was created. this infrastructure is created for borderless travel, so when the channel tunnel was built there were no requirements for passport controls, no requirements for customs controls on goods moving backwards and forwards between the uk and france, and that is different now. so the introduction of controls has some effect on the speed with which people will travel
of the motorway, it took us seven hours to get to the terminal. it s about two miles i think. eurotunnel was adamant that some of the delays were beyond its control. when the channel tunnel was built, no requirements for passport controls, no requirements for customs controls on goods moving backwards and forwards between the uk and france. that s different now. so the introduction of controls has some effect on the speed with which people will travel through the terminals. today was probably the port of dover s busiest day since the pandemic as thousands of families tried to travel abroad for the first time in three years. ramzan karmali, bbc news. the world health organization has declared the global outbreak of monkeypox to be a public health emergency. 16,000 cases have so far been
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