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    Ross: yes, you're right too. The principal/"standard" bottleneck is producing the declaration, not processing it - and the local agent community has shrunk to match current volumes of non-EU traffic, let's say 10% of total traffic. Even were there to be some slack in the system, it cannot currently cover 90% of traffic. That's really what I meant by truck 1, 2 and so on; once all agents are occupied, the "next" truck waits (even if not physically present) for the time taken to prepare both it and the one in front.

    Absolutely worse is the UK perception that UK export declarations must be re-processed all over again when outbound trucks reach Dover Eastern Docks - island mentality gone mad.

    The Straits should be treated as a land boundary with minimal input from ferry operators (who have next to no commercial interest in truck loads), because otherwise check-in queues (to quiz the driver in real-time and form a laughable freight manifest) really will make your eyes water!

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