Vehicles queue to enter the Port of Dover in the summer
(Picture: PA Wire)A proposed tougher new system of passport checks to enter Europe threatens to cause long delays for travellers unless potential problems are ironed out in advance, a travel boss has warned.
Doug Bannister, chief executive of the Port of Dover, said there was a risk that the “biometric” eye and fingerprint checks to be overseen by French border police would slow the progress of British and non-EU passengers and freight onto ferries.
