The new European entry system (EES) adds only a few minutes to the travel time for the drivers on the ship’s referee, Independent It is said

A very delayed border plan, before passing through passport control-on Dover on the UK, needs every English traveler to the EU and record a biometric face.

The eastern docks, from where the ships go to Calis and Dunkirk, have never been designed for intensive border reviews. But after Brexit, the Boris Johnson government negotiated to become British citizens to become a “third country national”. It now means that each passport is being reviewed and stamped when the EU and the wider region of Schengen

Shura leaders in Kent have warned for more than 14 hours as soon as EES is running at Dover – and the Eurotunnel Terminal in Folkestone.

But the executive director of the referee’s port says the new trend is just a few minutes to travel traveling – thanks to a new registration site and “continental corridor” through the city, approved by EU and French officials.

Doug Bannnister said Independent“Instead of relying on the delegates, this was what we were shooting last year, we changed our delivery mechanism to a kiosk -based kiosk.”

Corporate drivers and passengers who have not previously registered for the login system are directed to a new combination in which biometrics are collected. Currently, on the back of the western docks, the ships are willing to build.

“We intend to create new facilities in our western docks to allow car traffic to register itself before moving to the eastern docks to board the ships,” Mr Bentister said.

Drivers and passengers park, leave their vehicles, and record their face and biometrics in a set of kiosks that collect data including details of the passenger passport.

After the formalities are completed, drivers follow the A20 dual march through the referee to the eastern docks, where passport checks are normally carried out by French police Aux Frontères. Despite any car passenger previously registered, the verification process must be brief.

Officers will continue to cross as long as the logging system is established throughout the Schengen area.

“The main part of the EES process is to record biometric details next to the passport,” the port chief said. “This was the place where the trend was going to be done. We do not anticipate that the border checking process will be very different from today’s way.”

Modeling by the referee port shows that the registration process can take six minutes for each car, followed by an average of eight minutes from western to eastern docks.

Having any part of a two -stage border with one mile will ask questions about system security, and in particular the possibility of unregistered passengers to join the car. Therefore, artificial intelligence will be deployed between the two stations to identify any unusual activity in the Continental Corridor.

“To provide a lot of confidence in this process, we are piloting new technology based on some artificial intelligence so that we can provide the transit security of the vehicle from western docks to East Union,” Mr Bannninster said.

“If that vehicle turns on in that eight -minute window, it’s good to have everything with it.

“If it takes 28 minutes for what should be an eight -minute drive, it can be banned as” red “. So there may be another intervention in the border review section of the process required by the Aux Frontères police.”

“The new method should work without creating extra queue,” said Dover CEO. “The magic number we had to build our peak infrastructure is 600 non -European cars per hour,” he said.

“These facilities will still be about 650 cars per hour with 100 percent efficiency more than 800 cars per hour and even 80 percent efficiency,” he said.

“When this happens, we will have a period of uncertainty. Will this technology work well? Do the processes work well?”

“The fact that they are introduced [EES] In the fall in the lower travel time, and they are performing a progressive performance, it gives us the opportunity to really examine our operational processes, making progress before the peak of the trip: Christmas, mid -February, Easter, and of course for the summer of 2026.

“We are very confident about how this process is doing and we have greatly supported the European Union so that we can do it and the French officials,” he said.

“If we go well, we may see this as a feature in all parts of the road.”

The main highway borders inside and outside the EU and the large Schengen area include Serbian, Albania, North Macedonia and Türkiye – as well as Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

European Information and Travel Permit (ETIS) online license system for British visitors to Europe is not introduced earlier than six months after the full implementation of EES. This will be October 2026 early.

For the first six months of ETIS, the license will not be mandatory – meaning that British travelers do not need one before April 2027.

Listen to Simon Calder’s exclusive interview with Doug Banist, CEO of Referee Port