LONDON: French authorities suspended the European Union’s new digital border check system at Britain’s Port of Dover on Saturday, as traffic piled up at the UK ferry terminal at the start of the long weekend. Travelers were facing wait times of over two hours at the terminal in southern England to get the cross-Channel ferry to France, the Port of Dover said in traffic updates. It said it was the “first peak period” since the introduction of the so-called Entry/Exit System (EES).

Schools will finish for the half-term break this afternoon ahead of the first holiday period since the EU's new Entry Exit System (EES) came into force on April 10.

Families heading to France from Dover are enduring a two hour wait, while train services out of London have been hit by cancellations ahead of weekend of route closures

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Travellers are facing long queues on what is expected to be one of the hottest days of the year so far

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Holidaymakers heading to France were stuck in long queues heading into the port as the half-term getaway starts

Roads around the Kent port are 'heavily congested' with traffic jams of around two hours to access the site, according to Port of Dover Travel.

Le autorità francesi hanno fermato i controlli aggiuntivi a Dover per ridurre i tempi di attesa dei turisti, dopo segnalazioni di disagi causati dal nuovo sistema di frontiera.

Wait times of more than two hours reported at terminal for cross-Channel ferry to France

French authorities suspended the European Union's new digital border check system at Britain's Port of Dover on Saturday, as traffic piled up at the UK ferry terminal at the start…

At the start of a hot bank holiday weekend, lengthy queues had formed at Dover port in what its authorities described as a challenging situation.

Extra European Union border checks have been suspended at the Port of Dover. Throngs of passengers waited hours Saturday in the heat to board ferries across the English Channel.

LONDON: French authorities suspended the European Union’s new digital border check system at Britain’s Port of Dover on Saturday, as traffic piled up at the UK ferry terminal at…

LONDON: French authorities suspended the European Union’s new digital border check system at Britain’s Port of...

LONDON — Extra border checks were suspended Saturday at Dover after thousands of holidaymakers heading to the port waited hours in the heat in long queues to...