Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 454
#1
Before we joined the EU Dover had over 200 freight clearance firms from one man bands to big companies. When we joined the EU they were all wiped out.
Why can they be brought back to clear the paper work. With computers and e-mail it will it not be quicker?
Your thoughts?
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#2
Some agents never went away after the completion of the EU Single Market in 1993 and continued to process traffic that, being non-EU trade, still required customs clearance - ultimately c.10% of freight. (Computerised processing started in Dover in 1979, with agents inputting data themselves from 1986.) They're still around today, handling traffic at Motis' Western Docks facility, Stop 24 and, I assume, Sevington.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#3
Slightly off topic, but Sevington Church. stuck in the middle of a massive tarmac labyrinth is well worth a visit, being Grade 1 listed and dating from th 12thC though no longer " lonely and a little forlorn" (Pevsner)
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/12074/Weird Granny Slater likes this
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,300
#4
Whatever your ideological views about being in the EU, leaving could have been a jobs bonanza locally - as Gary points out. However, it's not turned out like that with cheap foreign labour replacing local workers on the ferries, and government too scared to implement any of the administrative checks and balances through fears of higher prices and long queues (not good optics). End result, Brexit has been pants for Dover.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#5
I don't follow what leaving the EU had to do with P&O's shenanigans vis-a-vis its workforce. As for the "checks and balances" (or lack of them), these are the "foodstuff etc" ones, rather than the fiscal ones - see also
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72pz0vjd57o(Not my real name.)
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,300
#6
The P&O situation - nothing more than it was literally the very scenario Brexit was supposed to stop - cheap foreign labour taking the jobs of Brits. So, turned around, Brexit did nothing to help.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#7
Ah, I see! I guess the rectification is all down to our recently-liberated democracy - take back control and all that!
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