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The tranquility reigned this Friday in the port of Dover and at the Eurotunnel entrance, crosses from England to France, in the beginning of a new era after the United Kingdom completed its separation from the European Union (EU).
(Read here: United Kingdom completes its separation from the European Union)
From this Friday, the United Kingdom is outside the common market and the customs union and subject to its own laws, under the jurisdiction of its courts, with control of its waters and the freedom to negotiate trade agreements with countries outside the community bloc.
A truck run by the carrier Slavi Ivanov Shumeykov He was the first to start this new stage by overcoming the Eurotunnel controls, the passage under the English Channel, in the town of Folkestone, in the southeast of England.
The first carriers from the French town of Calais entered Folkestone after 12:20 GMT on Friday, according to local media.
The disconnect had created unease Among the transport companies on the situation that could occur in Dover, from where the ferries that cross the Channel depart, if there was no agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU and after the scenes seen a week ago, with thousands of truckers stranded, after France closed its border due to the covid-19 crisis.
Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe told the media on Friday that everything has gone well and that everything “is quiet” since few trucks have crossed, as expected.
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The United Kingdom had already officially left the club of 27 on January 31, but with the entry of 2021, it has been separated from the EU at the end of the transition period.
The free trade agreement sealed between the two parties on December 24, after nine months of negotiations, ensures that the United Kingdom can “trade and cooperate” with the 27 members of the EU “in the closest terms of friendship and goodwill”.
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The first ferries
The first ferries from the United Kingdom arrived in Ireland on Friday subject to the new trade rules that have prevailed since this Friday, after the Brexit transition period has expired.
According to local media, in Dublin, the Ulysses boat, from the Irish Ferries company, docked this morning at 5.55 GMT carrying a dozen trucks from Holyhead, Wales.
Also in Rosslare, the ship “Isle of Inishmore”, from the same transport operator, arrived from Pembroke, Wales and a truck carrying bananas was the first to pass through the new customs checkpoint.
Completed, for practical purposes, the disconnection of the United Kingdom from the community bloc, so far no delays have been registered either in the entrances of the transport trucks, which passed the new procedures, following the new rules of the game.
AFP and EFE
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