The Entry/Exit System is set to start in October but many operational details remain unclear, as fears grow of major delays at Dover and Eurotunnel.
Collapsed trade talks, new border checks, 14-hour queues at the border and medicine shortages... it's just another day in Brexit land.
Facility nicknamed Farage Garage is just one of 29 such sites being created across England
Up to 12 post-Brexit customs centres like Kent lorry park to be built to deal with EU exit
13/07/2020
Businesses face 400 million extra customs declarations a year at a cost up as much as £20 billion under government plans.
New border checks in Kent and elsewhere reverse 47 years of removal of trade barriers.
Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover.
Ministers plan to resurrect Operation Brock to manage lines. / U.K. fears traders won’t be ready for new EU customs checks
Truckers trying to find Brexit lorry park next to Junction 10a in Ashford spark chaos in Mersham
07/01/2021
Confused truckers trying to find a huge Brexit lorry park are getting lost in a nearby village - making houses shake and churning up grass verges.
Tory MP says Brexit plans are 'unfair' to his constituents, even though 60% of them voted for it
13/07/2020
Tory MP Damian Green just tried to claim that building a Brexit customs centre in his constituency is "unfair" to local residents, even though they voted to leave the EU.
Staff at Sevington Internal Border Facility near Ashford to be redeployed amid post-Brexit delays
17/04/2022
Dozens of staff recruited to process and check food goods arriving from Europe could have to be redeployed after the government announced a further delay on new post-Brexit border controls.
The boss of a haulage company says he has seen journey times treble due to EU red tape and Covid testing for drivers.
A 27-acre site is being built to handle trucks amid fears that new trade rules will slow freight movement. It has been nicknamed the “Farage Garage” after the pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage.
Ministers accused of building 'pointless lorry park in Kent' after announcing £700m for trade checks [1 min]
12/07/2020
'This is all so pointless. We are creating a vast customs bureaucracy, with costs passed on to the consumer'
Pictures posted on Facebook showed trucks wedged in precarious positions in the village as they tried to negotiate the winding streets.
Angry residents are growing increasingly impatient waiting for a solution to be found to stop lorry park-bound truckers getting lost in Mersham.
Long tailbacks as Brexit lorry operation to slow parts of major motorway to 30mph overruns
28/10/2019
Motorists brand works in preparation for potential no-deal queues ‘chaos’ and ‘complete waste of time’.
The government has ordered a 27-acre site be transformed into a customs clearance centre
‘Worst case scenario’ also warns of passengers waiting hours to board Chunnel trains to continent.
Heavy rain has hampered work on site intended to relieve queues around Dover from 1 January.
DfT has bought site that will be used for customs clearance and holding pen for lorries, Rachel Maclean confirms.
Hundreds of seats left empty on London-Paris Eurostar trains due to Brexit passport checks
24/01/2023
ondon trains leave Amsterdam at least 78% empty because of constraints on UK border checks. / Thousands of seats are deliberately going unsold on Eurostar trains every day as the cross-Channel train operator struggles with post-Brexit passport controls.
Ministers urged to fulfil promise of new facilities, as desperate drivers forced to ‘s*** in bushes’.
Thousands of lorries may have to queue to get into Europe after December 31
Work on an "emergency lorry park" in Kent to accommodate up to 10,000 vehicles bound for Europe began without the knowledge of residents.