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Freight drivers hoping to cross into France have been told they can return to Dover instead of waiting in an overflowing truck parking lot.
Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps said that by 9 a.m. on Boxing Day, all carriers had left Manston Airfield, the site used to manage the disruption in Kent caused by France’s partial travel and trade ban. .
Added 15,526 coronavirus Tests have already been carried out on drivers with 36 positive results that “are being verified”.
At 9 a.m. M. From Boxing Day, the accumulation was erased. Photo: Grant Shapps
“Manston is now empty and trucks shouldn’t go there anymore, please,” the cabinet minister said in a tweet.
Shapps thanked “everyone who has worked tirelessly over the past few days to reduce the huge disruption.”
Some trips from the UK to Fance began to resume on Wednesday morning.
“The police, the military, the planners, the councils, the charities, the border personnel, all have come together to bring food and drink to the stranded carriers,” he said.
Chaos broke out on the roads of Kent last weekend when a new variant of coronavirus discovered in southeast England led to dozens of countries quickly close their borders with Great Britain.
Hundreds of trucks were queuing on the approach to Dover.
While most exempt carriers, France no, which means that any accompanied cargo driven on a truck or truck could not get through for 48 hours.
Frantic negotiations ensued as the UK tried to get its neighbor to unblock the trade route, particularly vital in the run-up to Christmas and with the end of the Brexit transition period looming.
The situation worsened when more than 5,000 backlogged trucks piled up, raising fears about a possible food shortage, while the government urged people not to travel to Kent ports.
Drivers now have to submit a negative COVID-19 test to cross the Canal
A then an agreement was reached allow accompanied cargo to begin traveling over the Canal by ferry or train again, provided the conductors yield a negative lateral flow test.
But the backlog took days to clear, with many drivers stranded away from home over the holiday period and some fights with police.
