The port declared a critical incident on Friday as result of a huge build up of traffic at the port ahead of the Easter break
This evening P&O Ferries told coach drivers to head straight to the port to join the buffer zone queues, where advance passenger information will be taken, but said “currently there is a 6+ hour wait to reach the border check points”.
But the morning the port still estimated travellers would face waits of up to eight hours, depending on the ferry operator.Port officials said they had been “working round the clock” with ferry operators and border agencies to try to get coach passengers on their way and more than 300 coaches left the port on Saturday, while the freight backlog was cleared and tourist cars had been successfully processed.
Ms Pearson, 50, an environmental campaigner from Essex, was travelling to Val d’Isere in the French Alps on an overnight bus.
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