News / Irish Ferries and P&O share space to cut cargo delays on Dover-Calais

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Ferry operators P&O and Irish Ferries have entered into a pseudo shipping alliance in an attempt to overcome disruption and speed up shipment movements between Dover and Calais.

The move follows IT problems at border posts that caused outages for UK Customs’ Automatic Licence Verification System (ALVS), which meant manual customs checks on sheaves of paperwork – a process which, according to a report in the UK’s Guardian, held up one truck at the Sevington border post in Kent for 20 ...