Timeline for Why is the UK government awarding contracts for extra ferry services?
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| Jan 4, 2019 at 16:09 | comment | added | pjc50 | There isn't necessarily space to build additional infrastructure. And the UK government can't order the construction of additional infrastructure in Calais, which is one of the places that's going to be full. | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 7:44 | comment | added | Steve Smith | @Pelinore the other thing is they may want to avoid over committing resources that if brexit doesn't have the impact expected or takes a different form (or doesn't happen at all) will then not be needed. in these circumstances ferry services may well still be useful or can be "sold back to the market" to recover costs. You are also assuming that Dover and or other ports can accommodate significantly more border resources and that these can be put in place quickly which may not be the case. | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 7:13 | comment | added | o.m. | It might well be that Brexit creates more traffic if the change of rules disrupts existing traffic patterns. More trucks running empty or half-empty because they cannot do "triangle trade" any more -- one truck bringing groceries and returning empty, another truck coming empty and fetching car parts. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 21:45 | history | edited | Steve Melnikoff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 20:44 | comment | added | Pelinore | But there's still not going to be any more traffic so I would have thought building more customs infrastructure to go with the extra staff (you're right more staff on each gate won't help past a certain point, you need more gates as well) at the normal ports used would have been more effective. Unless there's already existing congestion issues with the roads & routes from the ports currently used that they're trying to alleviate with this I can't see it helping much at all, & if that's the case it means it's not the "Brexit" issue they've labelled it as? | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 20:13 | history | answered | Steve Smith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |