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Pictures of enormous queues of British tourists waiting at continental European passport controls are normally the stuff of tabloid newspapers, but the mounting chaos over the EU\u2019s new Entry Exit Scheme is now threatening to cut-off a major UK-Europe freight artery.<\/p>\n

As the summer holiday peak nears, Dover Harbour Board chief executive Doug Bannister has warned that problems in processing tourists\u2019 passports, under the new EES arrangements, could also cripple freight flows through the port, which typically handles around 30% of the UK\u2019s maritime trade with continental Europe via shortsea ferries.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the UK\u2019s parliamentary select committee on business and trade (BTC), Mr Bannister explained that a precursor to the coming months had been seen in mid-May, during the school half-term break, when the port had to declare a \u2018critical incident\u2019 after vehicle queues rapidly built up to 4.5 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was after only a few hours of EES processing on the first Saturday resulted in severe congestion, lengthy delays and widespread gridlock including the two primary routes into the town,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis occurred on a day when around 8,500 tourist vehicles travelled through the port. In only a matter of weeks, Dover will enter the peak summer getaway period when daily volumes can regularly exceed 12,000 vehicles,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Dover invested \u00a340m in the construction of 84 new passport kiosks in its Western Docks area to handle the EES process, but Mr Bannister said official French policy was to only process tourist cars in the Eastern Dock area, \u201cwhere border capacity is far more constrained\u201d because of an inoperability issue \u201ccompletely beyond the port\u2019s control\u201d, and which has been seen at other key passenger nodes such as airports since EES introduction.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith much of the summer being full of days with high tourist volumes, there is a danger of continuing disruption for freight traffic to and through the port,\u201d Mr Bannister added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIronically, the vast majority of hauliers exiting the UK hold European passports and so do not need to get caught up in EES, but will do so because of the inability to bypass the queues of tourist and local traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, the goods being transited are primarily just-in-time products [like] medicines, automotive components, fresh food, that must be on the shelf or on an assembly line within a very short time-window,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As a result, the port has called for a \u201cdiplomatic resolution that does not resign us to relying on contingency plans after the congestion has occurred\u201d, but with tha prospect looking dim, it has called for the EES to be \u201cstood down\u201d for the remainder of the summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHandling one-third of all UK trade in goods with the EU, the port of Dover should play a central role in the wider UK\/EU reset agenda to make trading with our largest and closest trading partner easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, with border authorities currently maintaining the same approach as for May half-term, this could cause untold disruption across Kent \u2013 far worse than we have just experienced \u2013 and will be damaging for tourism, for our ferry customers and their business, for the wider economy and for the progress the government wishes to make in the reset,\u201d Mr Bannister added.<\/p>\n

BCT committee chair Liam Byrne MP urged the UK government to forge an agreement with France.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe port of Dover has sounded the alarm. Without an agreement with France to pause the new EU border tech this summer, Britain risks border chaos again.<\/p>\n

\u201cMinisters must urgently secure that agreement now. Once queues stretch for miles through Kent, it will be too late,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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