Dover Ferry Queues

throwaway4372 said:
Sick of hearing about this bottleneck. Build 2-3 more ports/tunnels already.
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Or do something thats 1000 times faster and would generate positives for the country instead.
If only there was a simple and sensible solution to this friction in trade and travel ;)
Could we adopt a European solution to frictionless trade and travel I wonder
 
The French have understaffed their border control booths and today is school break up day. As a local, I can assure you , it's nothing new.

The French as a whole I've found are lovely - however the ones living around Calais absolutely hate the English. I remember a day trip with work friends to Calais, and going to a local bar there. The owner of the bar actually retracted the sun shade from over us in order to encourage us to move on. The town was surrounded by metal fences and riots were planned for that day. This was 2009.
 
Don't understand why the French run this side. Just open the gates get people on their ferries and the French can do border checks at their own border if they want.
 
danlightbulb said:
Don't understand why the French run this side. Just open the gates get people on their ferries and the French can do border checks at their own border if they want.
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It's part of a long running agreement.

www.thelocal.fr

What is the Le Touquet treaty and why do some French politicians want to scrap it?

The pretty northern French seaside resort of Le Touquet frequently features in international political discussion, but it's not the beaches or casinos that are the focus. Instead, it is the UK-France agreement named after the town that is under the spotlight.
www.thelocal.fr www.thelocal.fr

If the French border was that side, we would be running into issues where boats were queueing to unload in Calais. As it stands at the moment, you disembark from a Ferry almost straight onto the motorway.
 
dLockers said:
Only 50% of the passport control booths are open (French customs is on our shores) and they are on a "work to order" as per Frenchies loving to strike.
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Remembering CDG airport's cleaning staff going on strike for 9 days in the mid 90s. I was there on day 6 and it was horrible. Loos blocked with paper, trays of food not emptied. Bins overflowing with rubbish to the side the same height as the bins. Serves them right as they had to clear up 9 days worth of crap when they returned from their strike.
 
French are blaming a 1 hour delay in manning the booths fully due to an incident in the tunnel, rather than understaffing/bad planning. Seems weak.
 
Just to make it 100% clear.

French border control were the same pre Brexit as they are now, this is absolutely nothing new. Extremely common for them to under man. It doesn't matter how many cars Eurotunnel or Dover get onto site if border control bottleneck it and decided to be extremely.....particular in their checks.

If everything is running smoothly, there is barely any difference now between pre Brexit document checks and post. You just have to have filled out passport info pre travel and get your pets checked if you are travelling with them.

I may or may not work at one of these companies.
 
chroniclard said:
French are blaming a 1 hour delay in manning the booths fully due to an incident in the tunnel, rather than understaffing/bad planning. Seems weak.
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Well, it's not really much better than "signal failure" / "leaves on the track" / "the wrong tyoe of snow" etc :D

I did have one a few months ago where the bloke on the tannoy basically said "soz lol trains late 'cos Dave and Sharine called in sick soz" - you could tell this was someone who'd just been told he's doing a double shift :D
 
Bug One said:
If the French border was that side, we would be running into issues where boats were queueing to unload in Calais. As it stands at the moment, you disembark from a Ferry almost straight onto the motorway.
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You mean like planes queue up to unload at airports across the world...Oh wait. :)
 
It's because of Bre.....akfast.

I hear the French take long break for breakfast and then need to sleep off the wine after.

To be fair, we are the mugs not them.
 
Looks like loads of people avoiding the airport chaos as well, did due to cancelled flights etc. So took the safe way, which was the ferry, but lots of others had the same idea.

It's not exactly anything new either, last time I went in 2015 it was about 3-4 hours waiting, 2nd day of the summer holidays. We blamed the number of people, as opposed to anything else.

Edit: Seems it was way worse in 2016.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dover ferry port chaos leads to 14-hour traffic jams

Delays at the Port of Dover have caused up to 14-hour tailbacks on the A20 /M20 with Kent Police warning disruption could last for another two days.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
signal problem => decent french patisserie/croissants didn't arrive on time for petit-dejeuner =>. so pretty reasonable the douaniers werne't in the office first thing. .. butterfly effect
Is a brickie going to start work before a decent cuppa


Thought the plane cancellations were all over and done with after the govt safe guarded their precious departure slots.
 
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