It is designed to carry out checks on up to 80 truck loads of produce a day. The port now expects to process only four or five daily
A new £24m border control post may have to be demolished because repeated changes to post-Brexit border arrangements have left it commercially unviable. The facility at Portsmouth International Port is due to begin physical checks on food and plant imports from the EU at the end of next month, but changes to border protocols since it was built mean half of the building will never be used.
Were the Portsmouth facility to close it could impact the security of UK food imports, as the port is the main alternative route to Dover, providing much-needed resilience to a supply chain heavily reliant on the Short Straits route. 'It's a total and absolute mess, we have an enormous white elephant here,' Mr Vernon-Jones said.
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