Originally Posted by
UKtravelbear
isn’t one of the issues causing the delays the lack of both UK and French Border officials and facilities?
if so opening another port would simply divert resources away from Dover.
When the CEO of Dover port has been interviewed, he has said several times both last weekend and again today that the delays were not as a result of a lack of French Border police, and he even noted that last Saturday they bolstered the scheduled resources after there was some pressure experienced last Friday.
I am sure if he could divert some blame onto something he cannot directly control he would have done, but the French Border control were explicitly not blamed by Dover Ports.