Present testing preparations for hauliers crossing the English Channel – the place they will need to have had a unfavourable coronavirus check inside 72 hours of crossing – are to proceed following a choice by the French Authorities says the British Division for Transport (DfT).
The continuation means hauliers – together with drivers and crew of HGVs, drivers of LGVs and van drivers – planning to cross the Channel ought to safe a unfavourable check earlier than travelling to Kent or different Channel crossing factors.
The DfT notes following the French authorities’s authentic resolution to shut the border to the UK and the following reopening of the frontier to hauliers on the situation of a unfavourable Covid check on 23 December (2020), it was agreed the preparations can be reviewed recurrently.
Having met to debate the state of affairs, the French authorities has made the choice to maintain present measures in place till additional discover.
Hauliers are actually being urged to safe a unfavourable COVID-19 check earlier than travelling to the border, to assist additional with avoiding backlog or site visitors administration points.
“Following the French authorities’s resolution to increase the present preparations, I proceed to induce all hauliers to get examined earlier than attending to the border and solely journey in the event that they check unfavourable,” stated British Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps.
“To assist make this potential we’re providing help to companies to set-up testing services at their very own premises, aiding the graceful passage of vans and good throughout the border, in addition to organising testing at info and recommendation websites across the nation.”
To assist hauliers have exams earlier than travelling to Kent, 34 info and recommendation websites have been arrange throughout the UK, linked to key haulier stopping spots on their journeys, to allow them to have their unfavourable check earlier than heading to the border. Additional websites are within the technique of being arrange.
As well as, the federal government is providing to assist any enterprise to arrange a testing centre at its personal premises to make sure vans heading for France depart ‘COVID-19 prepared.’ This consists of the availability of testing kits freed from cost.
As with the earlier preparations agreed on the 23 December, hauliers should proceed to have proof of an authorised unfavourable check, carried out inside 72 hours of travelling to the border to cross.
If they don’t meet these necessities, they are going to be stopped from travelling.
