EU's nightmare before Christmas for the UK as major change to cripple borders

By Grace Piercy, News Reporter

Queues astatine the Port of Dover could origin mayhem this Christmas (Image: Getty)

Lorry drivers person warned that Britain’s nutrient proviso concatenation is nether menace from caller rules this Christmas. Non-EU travellers astatine Dover volition person to implicit fingerprint and facial designation checks earlier boarding cross-Channel ferries.

According to Logistics UK, this could hold some holidaymakers and the travel of goods crossed the borderline by creating agelong queues. This volition exacerbate already accrued postulation to the larboard municipality up of the festive period.

The EU’s caller Entry/Exit System (EES) volition travel into spot connected November 10 and could disrupt commercialized astatine a clip erstwhile the UK is reliant connected imported goods.

Nichola Mallon, caput of commercialized astatine Logistics UK, told The Telegraph: “If the EES is implemented arsenic planned, I'm acrophobic we're facing immense upheaval successful the proviso chain.

“The Government needs to instrumentality the pb present connected raising consciousness among the public, managing their expectations and signposting wherever they tin spell for advice.”

Every other infinitesimal successful processing volition adhd 10 miles to queues (Image: Getty)

It has been suggested that the EES could summation waiting times for a azygous car of 4 astatine the borderline from little than 60 seconds to a minute.

Research from Imperial College London says that each other infinitesimal successful processing volition adhd 10 miles to the queues.

Dover and the Eurotunnel handled 54 percent of each UK commercialized with continental Europe past year. Logistics UK estimates the outgo of borderline delays volition beryllium £1.30 a infinitesimal with a 14-hour hold-up costing £1,100 successful further disbursal per truck.

The radical besides warns an mean 90-minute hold to journeys would outgo the system £400million a twelvemonth and immoderate other outgo volition beryllium passed onto consumers.

UK ports are being handed a £10.5million boost from the authorities to assistance them hole for the enhanced EU borderline checks.

Chief operations serviceman astatine the Port of Dover, Emma Ward said: “We are doing each that we tin to beryllium acceptable with the facilities that volition beryllium utilized by French borderline officials operating the caller system.”