customs chaos in nearby dover but the plan by transport secretary chris grayling has been sharply criticized the harbor is too shallow to accommodate freight ships of five to see it is what's odd because the improved new port the emperor in question is crisscrossing he cannot see that this port is completely naked of all the facilities you might need to be in international. the harbor is as ill prepared for the freight service as the company awarded the contract to run it not only has it never operated a ferry service it doesn't have ships steve coombs and his action group discovered that some time ago as the transport secretary insists that's not a problem the government is testing other no deal scenarios alive rehearsal last week this time at ramsgate defunct airport but only eighty nine trucks took part in the trial of an emergency traffic system to avoid congestion in dover a fraction of daily traffic ramsgate has already borne the brunt of jokes ridiculed