Dozens of trucks from Murcia, trapped in the United Kingdom

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Tens of trucks of the Region of Murcia trying to cross the English Channel pthey remain trapped in United Kingdom and in the French passage of Calais. The blockade is attributed to the disappearance of one of the shipping companies that transports vehicles from one side of the Canal to the other, which has collapsed maritime traffic and the Channel Tunnel and has caused queues for kilometers, forcing carriers to endure waiting for more than 24 hours before you can board.

Among the tens of thousands of vehicles trapped there are trucks from companies in the Region such as Primafrio or Sources. As happened on the eve of Christmas 2020, vehicles are stranded on highway shoulders without being able to move forward, causing long delays and missing delivery deadlines for the goods they transport.

The Fuentes company, which this Friday afternoon had 15 trucks waiting to board in the British port of Dover and nine in France waiting to cross into the United Kingdom, he assured La Opinion that some of the drivers have had to wait up to 36 hours.

Lockdown revives “Christmas 2020 nightmare”

“The nightmare that Spanish carriers and the rest of the European Union suffered in the United Kingdom at Christmas 2020 is repeated again,” Fenadismer said in a statement. The health controls that were applied on both sides of the English Channel by France and the United Kingdom then caused a traffic collapse that left dozens of carriers isolated for days and prevented many of them from reaching their homes by Christmas Eve. Fenadismer criticizes “the negligent action of the British authorities” and demands “the immediate intervention of the European Commission to force the United Kingdom to adopt urgent measures to help ‘release’ the thousands of European carriers who are being held.”

The United Kingdom remains one of the leading destination countries for fresh produce companies in the region exportdespite the fact that purchases in the British market have experienced a significant drop since Brexit.

The collapse at the borders began several weeks ago, when one of the companies that trucks transport by ferry between the ports of Dover and Calais suspended its activity.

The heavy traffic that has occurred in recent days has prevented the rest of the boats that cross the English Channel from being able to absorb the high number of trucks passing through the ports of embarkation. The tunnel that runs under the sea has also been blocked. As reported by Fenadismer, there have been “queues of up to 50 kilometers on the Eurotunnel access motorway and at the embarkation ports”.

Waiting times for carriers have been increased by the proximity of the Holy Weekgiven that the authorities give priority to passenger car traffic.

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