According to Dover's ferry port authority, long queues that caused up to 16-hour waits over the weekend have cleared.
Last night, the Port of Dover was still saying coaches faced a four-hour wait for processing
Long queues that caused hours-long waits at the Dover over the weekend have cleared, according the Kent town’s ferry port authority.break, with coaches particularly impacted.Heading into yesterday morning, the average wait for coaches to board a ferry was still 10 hours. But this morning, P&O Ferries tweeted: ‘There are no longer any queues at the entrance to the Port of Dover.The Port of Dover confirmed all the coaches that were waiting for border processing had been cleared by 12.30am.All coaches that were awaiting border processing in the Port were cleared as of 00.30hrs this morning.
As the traffic chaos continued yesterday morning, Home Secretary Suella Braverman told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday that it was not fair to view it as ‘an adverse effect of Brexit’. She said: ‘What I would say is at acute times when there is a lot of pressure crossing the Channel, whether that’s on the tunnel or ferries, then I think that there’s always going to be a back-up and I just urge everybody to be a bit patient while the ferry companies work their way through the backlog.’
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