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Travel chaos in France extended to Eurostar services between Paris and London last night as stranded passengers endured bedlam because of cancelled and delayed trains.

New. things have slowed down a little bit, not a huge amount, a little bit, not a huge amount, a little bit, not a huge amount, a little bit, because the french are now stamping passports and theyre having to do covid checks as well. so thats slowed it down a bit. it is just the amount of traffic, the lack of officers at dover yesterday, and friday, and just the amount of traffic. it is not unexpected. in which case why is it not pre—empted before the queues build. this which case why is it no...

Days. the accusation was that france did not have enough staff to properly staffed their border controls here in dover, and that initially caused the chaos. but the french authorities say it is simply a matter of infrastructure, that the port of dover cannot cope when there are lots of tourists coming through, and also the same in folkestone. they think the finger should be pointed out the british government for a failure of investment.- for a failure of investment. simon, in dover, thank _ for ...

Through the tunnel. what is being done at the moment which, if you like, is the future is the digitalisation of all of that, so the move away from manual controls and the move towards the use of more biometric technologies, the use of smartphones for identity and the use of advanced passenger information. once we get to those stages, then things will improve, but as long as there are significant border controls like there are going into the eu at the moment, then inevitably it will take longer t...

The best bet, i wish we had! she is still smiling and laughing about it though, which is the good old british spirit. the director of public affairs at eurotunnel gave his response to the delays. we asked people to turn up about two hours before their booked departure and we are moving them through onto the trains within one and a half to two hours, so we are on schedule and all of the processing through the terminal, through the border controls, is going according to plan as well. the congestio...

Replacing them with cheaper agency staff and one of the ferry is still not running. add to that the extra checks after brexit, anyone going through french border controls has to have their passports stamped, which was not the case before brexit so that is adding to the time it is taking to get to the port and just a few seconds stamped on those passports can lead to queues building up and we have a similar situation which we saw at half term and easter when we had a couple of days at the micra o...

Holidaymakers are stuck in four-hour immigration queues at the Port of Dover

Major incident declared as port chiefs attack 'woefully inadequate' border staff

For all the freight that cant get over because tourist traffic is prioritised in a situation like this, which is why there is so much anger in dover because this was expected in terms of the numbers but it seems the preparation has not been by all had simply been ignored. one wonders if this is something we will see more and more of, whether it is simply due to a lack of staff due to so many people leaving companies and various border controls and what have you because they moved on, they found ...

Currently, Finlands border with Russia is only secured by light wooden fences, mainly installed to prevent cattle from grazing on the wrong side.