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Povilas Drižas, secretary general of the International Transport and Logistics Alliance (TTLA), says that the queues in the English Channel can take as long as a week or two to dissipate.
According to him, the queues are spreading very slowly and because people traveling to France must be given a negative test for COVID-19, which was carried out at most 72 hours ago.
“It just came to our notice then. In a night or two, no one will disperse. I think queues like there are now, there are thousands of trucks, it will take a week or two here to get out,” P. Drižas told BNS.
The situation remains the same, tense.
According to him, it is also concerning that the queues created by the new coronavirus strain will not disperse until the New Year, when Brexit is likely to take place without a trade deal.
“Actually, there are six days left until January 1st.” Not everyone will be able to leave in six days, which automatically indicates that on the morning of January 1st the inspection regime will start as in the third country (UK after Brexit – BNS) “, said the representative of the airline.
According to him, the association does not have the number of Lithuanian trucks stuck in the UK.
However, Mr Driž maintains that the situation on the UK-French border will cause losses for shippers, and non-consumer goods such as food will be the most affected.
“The losses will be unequivocal, everything will depend on the type of cargo that is transported (…) We will feel the consequences of this chaos for a long time,” he said.
After France banned any transport from entering the UK via the English Channel, miles of queues formed at the port of Dover. Typically around 10,000 people cross the English Channel every day. tractors.
The losses will not be ambiguous, everything will depend on the type of cargo that is transported.
The movement resumed on Wednesday for tugboat drivers and French or British living in France and having a negative COVID-19 test, but foreign media say British officials admit that the lines at Dover will continue for some time.
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