Try to imagine it like this: leaving GB to FR/EU somebody has had their foot on a hose since 1/1/21. Ferry is slower loading, but when it zips across channel the queue waiting there in FR/EU has had nobody standing on the hose...until 1/1/22.
Now somebody is *partially only* standing on the hose FR/EU to GB.
Slower to load FR/EU side means longer queue building on the GB side waiting for ferries shuttling back that cannot afford to be too non commercially empty. So fewer sailings but still not running as profitably.
Slower to load FR/EU side means longer queue building on the GB side waiting for ferries shuttling back that cannot afford to be too non commercially empty. So fewer sailings but still not running as profitably.
Left unchecked queues both sides will stretch. UK Gov (at your expense) will have commissioned extra ferries to sail much more empty. I believe DFDS service out of Sheerness pulled from service this week (adding to workload on Dover port) to ferry out more unaccompanied trailers
Port of Dover (any port) will not concede having any issues because they do not want exporters/importers shifting to driver unaccompanied routings/ports any sooner than they already are. The UK Gov will prioritise optics by keeping queues on roads down enough (they hope)
with your taxes subsidising extra ferries until freight (they hope) gradually finds its new lower equilibrium away from Dover using the driver unaccompanied ports, where by then (they hope) there will be enough UK HGV drivers/customs & SPS clearance extra personnel, systems
& infrastructure needed to comfortably drag loads from these ports.
If they need to delay the extra multiple times delayed *full* import (SPS/SSDs) controls again on the flow-over-control-advantage-EU-suppliers-&-smugglers basis, they will do so.
I predicted they will last Nov.
If they need to delay the extra multiple times delayed *full* import (SPS/SSDs) controls again on the flow-over-control-advantage-EU-suppliers-&-smugglers basis, they will do so.
I predicted they will last Nov.
The forever extended "deadlines" designed to drag just enough prepped businesses to point of readiness (they hope). To date 3 or 4 times they have not been able to, but as trade drops away they will reach the point where they can afford to "let go" & fully implement their TCA
By this time you will all be slowly conditioned (they hope) to accept less (volumes/freshness/choice of produce & products)
for more (cost & slower delivery schedules)
Brexit Curtain now descended.
"Belarussian Brexit"
for more (cost & slower delivery schedules)
Brexit Curtain now descended.
"Belarussian Brexit"
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