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  Currently it is estimated that there is an average of 10,000 commercial goods vehicle movements through Dover per day of which 95%+ are internal to the EU.
  
  Customs etc spend on average 2 minutes per internal EU vehicle movement, however customs checks etc on those either inbound from or outbound to territories outside the EU take 45 minutes.
  
  It is simple maths to work out that it will require either
  a) more staff and reconfiguration of the docks to accommodate these longer dwell times or
  b) long queues of trucks at the docks
  (this could also adversely impact Calais - or the French could just shift it all to us...)
  
  The alternative is to provide some form of electronic advanced freight clearance process where export is deemed to have occurred once the vehicle is sealed and passes the "factory gate" on its journey to the customer.

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