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 |  | Cross Channel Ferry Ports & Rail
      Not an entrapment site selling or promoting tickets on
      commission, no adverts, no kickbacks to author.Just Lists Of Ferry Ports &
      Routes Between British Isles & Continental Europe, Ferry Companies, & Government Corona Restrictions- for when Disruptions hit
      channel crossings, & author & others searching other routes
      across the Channel, Perhaps stuck in a car in France or
      Belgium, on a high cost roaming mobile smart phone, searching which ports
      have Ferries to drive to, &
      avoiding agent entrapment sites, & averse to sites
      burdened with spurious slow flashy bandwidth eating graphics,
      so as much searching as possible is
      done prior to travel, & linked here. Status Reports - Translations - Maps Map of ferry
      routes
Author a
      British resident in Continental Europe (Brexit damaged British
      living in the EU, & EU people living in the UK (way
      beyond what tourists see, eg: stopping Brits to EU bringing
      any Cheddar, Scotch eggs, Bacon, & reduced to 2 bottles
      of Port). 
      
        Continental European Ports (In North
        East to South West order) 
        
          Esbjerg, DenmarkCuxhaven, GermanyBremerhaven, GermanyAmsterdam, HollandRotterdam, HollandHook = Hoek, HollandZeebrugge, BelgiumOstend, BelgiumDunkirk, France: - East Port FreightDunkirk, France: - West Port Car FerriesCalais, FranceChunnel - Channel Tunnel,
          Coquelles, Calais, FranceBoulogne, FranceDieppe, FranceLe Havre, FranceCaen, FranceCherbourg, FranceSt Malo, FranceRoscoff, FranceBilbao, Spain
        English (& Irish) Ports (In
        clockwise order: North East, South East, South West, North
        West & Ireland) 
        
          Hull, EnglandHarwich, Suffolk, EnglandRamsgate, Kent,
          EnglandDover, Kent,
          EnglandFolkestone, Kent, Kent,
          EnglandChunnel = Channel Tunnel,
          Folkestone, Kent, EnglandNewhaven, East
          Sussex, EnglandPortsmouth, Hampshire,
          EnglandSouthampton, Hampshire,
          EnglandPoole, Hampshire,
          EnglandWeymouth, Hampshire,
          EnglandPlymouth, Hampshire,
          EnglandLiverpool, EnglandRosslare, Southern Ireland =
          Eire.Belfast, Northern Ireland
        Ferry Companies (Short crossings
        first) 
        
      Status ReportsTravel TipsDisruptionsMigrantsAuthor Channel & North Sea Ports With Car Ferry Routes
      OpenStreetMap
      English Channel & North Sea 
       
 
        
          
          
        
          
          
        
          
          
        
          
          
        
          
          
        
          
          East of 
          Bruge) - To Ramsgate ,
          England 
          
        
          
          
            Ferries: at West PortFreight at East
            Port
Town: wikipedia
              Dunkirk, France - Both Ports
                
                  
                  
                    Old, for small ships.OpenStreetMap
                    Google pic. of Eastern port adjacent to Western
                    edge of Dunkirk, France old centre of
                    town
                    ports . com (East: not a ferry
                    port.)
                      
                        
                          dunkerque
                          - port . frBad web site (tried in both French &
                          English).
 
                            No mention of which of East
                            or West port for ferries, frequencies,
                            or departure times, destinations
                            etcIf in desperation you click on eg 
                            "grand-port" You get finance &
                            politics, nothing about which of the 2
                            is the bigger ferry port
                            ;-).
Includes a 
                            picture of Eastern
                            portNo Ferry Status
                            Report (unlike eg Calais, France) (Yet they
                            
                            index a Status Report for non passenger
                            ship departures) and they hide one
                            
                            picture of a ferry (5th pic. among
                            12), if you search
                            long enough.
                              No plain bold statement eg
                              "West port for ferries.", so you have
                              to examine same size aerial photos of
                              both East & West ports, compare
                              sizes, & deduce East port has
                              lock gates to an inner harbour,
                              before it's obvious: 
                              
                                East port is older, for
                                small ships.West Port is newer,
                                larger, For Passenger Ferries.Before discovering the
                            above, one wastes time searching,
                            assuming there's probably some other
                            web site for the Western passenger
                            ferry port, but eventually realising:
                            No, their web site seems to cover both
                            ports, & has Nothing
                            Useful!Even their other port
                            selector is stupid (when you find it):
                            They only accept daft "Douvres", Not
                            co-labeled "/Dover", (even when English
                            not French is selected) The idiots
                            assume all travelers inc. not just
                            English speakers, but Germans &
                            Polish, Spanish speakers etc using
                            English as a 2nd Language will All know
                            to Only search
                            for Dover by
                            French name of "Douvres"
                            !No link to PortDeDunkerque
                            . fr noticed.PortDeDunkerque
                        . fr
                          
                        
                        fr . wikipedia . org / wiki / Grand_ port_
                        maritime_ de_ Dunkerqueports -
                        guides . com 28 nm to Dover shown in 2 straight
                        lines.
                  
                  
                 
        
          
          
            
              If searching French press to see if calais is
              experiencing chaos,
              (like French Border Guards cause at Dover, & in Kent up the M20), try
              these: 
              
            DFDSFerries: Irish Ferries (New Route 2022)
            & DFDS & Disgraced P&O
            Ferries & Chunnel = Channel Tunnel to Folkestone, Kent, England
            OpenStreetMapwikipediacalais - port
            . com Useful Status Report but (after a week)
            fixed text still falsely states "Jusqu'à 3
            départs par heure, 24h/24 et 7j/7" (3
            departures per hour" even when only P&O is shown,
            & DFDS not listed, presumably
            as ex MyFerryLink.com still striking. Sample from
            2015.07.12 17:02 : 10 ships between 17:15 &
            01:20.calais -
            port . frports .
            com 27 nm to Dover if sailed
            in straight linesports-guides.comTo Dover: 1.5 hours,
            33 Sailings Daily
            Another migrant camp -
            Adjacent East of final left turn West into approach
            road to port.
              Brexit
              Chaos ? Extra Links to search from
              :Remember to also search
              English media for traffic chaos.
BBC
            map of migrant camps, tunnel & port
            Sangatte old closed migrant
            camp - OpenStreetMapCalais, France is a nice
            little town worth a visit, enormous free car park
            adjacent to high street, I much enjoyed a stroll along
            high street & into the park (maybe 2014 or 2013 ?
            while waiting for booked ferry), & giant pictures
            of global environmental features in the park, though I
            guess pictures probably long gone).The migrant camp was
            cleared once or twice, but is back @ 219. Occasionally
            migrant block cars on
            autoroute, cars then blocks the trucks, migrant invade back of trucks, chucking
            out boxes to make room for more migrant. Lots more barbed wire fences
            near Calais, France port. French
            army with machine guns before the French border
            inspection, Then British border guards, they very often
            examine vehicles, looking for smuggled people, not
            goods, (being EU, no one's interested, pre Brexit ;-) Then
            comes the ferry company: Their cameras recognise car
            reg. no. (at least they do in Dover, I recall in Calais, France too) I always have booking
            reference number on paper, & show it with passport.
            (Ferry wants to see passport, as ferry co. get fined if
            they transport illegals).
          Chunnel = Channel Rail Tunnel
          Eurostar - Coquelles, Calais, France To Folkestone, Kent, England
          & Ashford & London
          
          
        
          
          
        
          
          
        
          
          
        
          
          
        
          St Malo, France,
          Brittany=Bretagne, France (South of Jersey &
          Guernsey) To Portsmouth, Hampshire,
          England England,& Poole, , Hampshire,
          England England via Jersey
          
          
        
          
         
        ports . com /
      sea / english - channel /
          
            Newcastle 
            
          
            Hull, East Riding of
            Yorkshire, England 
            
          
            Felixstowe 
            
          
            Harwich, Suffolk,
            England 
            
              Ferries: Stena
              Lines to Hook of Hollandwww.harwich.co.ukPort of HARWICH (GB HRW)www.marinetraffic.comHarwich, Suffolk, England is at the extreme North
              East corner of Essex, South side of the Stour
              Estuary, with Felixstowe,
              Suffolk, on the north side of the same estuary. Route
              South West through Colchester then Chelmsford to
              London, if you want Kent, it's
              over the 
              QE2 high suspension bridge, pay that 
              toll on the web [link needed] " 
              Pay by midnight tomorrow" else get fined.gov . uk / government / news / dart - charge -
              dartford - crossing - remote - payment
 gov
              . uk / pay - dartford - crossing - charge
              OpenStreetMap.org
              DFDS Sirena Seaways struck Harwich, Suffolk, England
              June 22 2013 Listed in case it resumes
            Ramsgate 
            
          
            Dover 
            
              Solution for Dover Port
              ChaosIrish FerriesDFDSDisgraced
              P&O FerriesOpenStreetMapDoverPort.co.uk
              (Eastern docks for all Ferries)Coming from continent to UK: Before leaving docks,
              well before seeing the roundabout (that is
              immediately outside docks, but when you can see it,
              it is too late!): Stay in Right lane for the M20, a
              shorter motorway to London via Folkestone, Kent. It's
              all too easy to make the mistake in the ports, of
              practicing keeping in left lane now in England, then
              as exiting customs, if you don't switch to right
              lane, you will by mistake be swept up the ramp to
              dual carriageway to Canterbury, which has the M2 to
              London, but less & older motorway & longer
              distance. You cannot just go round the roundabout
              because even inside the docks the left filter lane
              has concrete walls blocking access from left lane to
              the roundabout.
Wikipedia
              Town
                Brexit
                Chaos ? Extra Links to search from
                :Remember to also search French
                media for traffic chaos.
2022-09-29
              BBC: Dover summer queue warning under new EU border
              system
            Folkestone, Kent 
            
          
            
            
          
            Newhaven, East
            Sussex, England 
            
          
            Portsmouth, Hampshire,
            England, West of Isle of Wight 
            
          
            Southampton,
            Hampshire,
            England, North of Isle of Wight 
            
          
            Poole, Hampshire,
            England near Bournemouth 
            
          
            Weymouth 
            
          
            Plymouth 
            
          Beyond Lands End, Cornwall, North to ....
            Liverpool,
            England 
            
           
          
            Ireland then a 2nd ferry to Wales or England. 
            
           
       An index of ports from mariners perspective, Not Ferry
      Passengers Perspective.
     
      Portsmouth, Hampshire ,
      England - { Le Havre, France , Caen, France  , {Cherbourg,
      France  (3 hours, 9
      Sailings Weekly )} } ; Poole  , Hampshire ,
      England - Cherbourg, France  ; Portsmouth , Hampshire ,
      England - Roscoff, France .
     Ferry Agents
 
      
        
        
      
        
        
          Ferries: 
           
            Book ferry in advance by internet, cheaper than at
            port. Within last 24 hours it costs more.
           
          Routes: 
           
            Through Luxembourg for cheaper fuel. No autoroute toll
            charge on route I used. From Aachen to Calais, France , Brussels always has
            traffic jams. 120 km/h in Belgium, 130 in France.
          
          Belgium to France border heading West from Brussels: 
           
            Since Brussels bombers in Paris: 2018 it was a single
            diversion off autoroute, drive round a roundabout,
            giving police a chance to view people, back on
            autoroute. 2019-03 it was 2 roundabouts, & when
            back on autoroute, single file a long way in fast lane,
            with police cars parked in slow lane, ready as chase
            cars.
           
          Alcohol Breathalysers, 
           
            France requires cars have 2 alcohol breathalysers,
            (chemical not electronic).
           
          Headlights: 
           
            [Only if you are competent to work out the light
            pattern in advance eg in a dark garage] : No need on
            ferry to buy little stick on bits for lights (as dipped
            lights on continental cars go to right, blinding
            oncoming British drivers). Instead just look carefully
            at headlamp glass, & see where the prisms are:
            German lights when dipped, have prisms on left of
            glass, that bend light to the right to illuminate
            german pedestrians at right of road. Just block those
            prisms. My Subaru prisms section is from memory maybe
            6cm long & 4cm high, tapering in toward centre. I
            normally tape up while waiting in the port.
           
          Toll crossing under River Thames: 
           
          Avoid the London congestion zone. 
          
        Disruptions
        (In chronological order, later to be
        reversed)
          Dover / Calais,
          France  ferry or tunnel 
          or some other ports disrupted 
          (eg by weather, strikes, Corona 
          pandemic government restrictions either side of the
          channel, Brexit  aUK
          NI / GB  Irish trade disruption; Disgraced P&O
          Ferries  sacking 800 staff &
          stopping all Ferries  without
          notice, etc) ? Find another ferry port to/ from England
          here.
           
           2019 or earlier: Brexit money wasted
          on Un-realised Ports & Ferry Co2020 & 2021 Corona pandemic
            UK government has varying regulations for France,
            Belgium, Netherlands & Germany, Denmark (that they
            change at extremely short notice, provoking chaotic pressure to rush back to UK early to avoid
            quarantine ) . 
             List mailman
            . berklix . org / mailman / listinfo / bg - chat 
            also discusses travel to/from UK., eg extracts from mailman . berklix . org / mailman / private / bg - chat
            / 2020q3 / 000269 . html 
              
              gov . uk / guidance / coronavirus - covid - 19 -
              countries - and - territories - exempt - from -
              advice - against - all - but - essential -
              international - travel
               Mere advice from Johnson's
              Brexit eer  
              bungler
                liar  regime
              that also illegally
              pro-rogued parliament  , & failed to
              Corona differentiate between Spain & Spanish
              Balearic Islands 
               UK law is of more interest than mere UK advice, so
              searching  for
              mandatory regulations:
               gov . uk / guidance / coronavirus - covid - 19 -
              travel - corridors 
               Which @ 2020-08-17 was too Loosely worded, &
              failed to address specifics, so I sent section below
              to government with button: Is there anything wrong
              with this page? 
                Johnson's UK regime regularly fumbles regulations
              at just a few hours notice (eg at same time school to
              university exam results), soIn ferry queue, passenger _can_ get out,
                even if they don't.Driver has to stop close to ferry inspector,
                & receive ticket, Is it "mix with other people"
                ?Driver has to stop close to customs, hand
                & receive passport Is it "mix with other
                people" ? Driver sometime must get out, walk round,
                open boot & or doors for smuggled immigrant
                & goods check Is it "mix with other people"
                ?We have to "mix with other people" walking
                up from car to passenger deck inside French
                quarantined territorial waters. Regulations do not
                provide exemption.People will probably get out of vehicle for
                toilet somewhere in transit country/ies, or at port
                in quarantined France, or on board ferry in French
                territorial water (unless a vehicle is a camper van
                with toilet, or unless a male alone by a bush) What
                of that is "mix with other people" ? better read something more worth while 
              Wikipedia on prevention of COVID-19 pandemic
 Another possible way (apart from fly from Munich to UK) to avoid the
            via Calais, France to UK
            quarantine, might be to take a car train ? Though there
            are no through trains through the tunnel from Germany.
            All change in Brussels or Paris for passengers or Calais, France for cars. LJK thinks
            car train is not even close to Chunnel terminal and discontinued.
            
            car train from Germany None to France or UK: Search with :
            car train munich england. They used to go to Calais, France and Perpignan and Naples,
            etc... DB gave up the Autozug in 2016, all private now.
            Car trains all over Europe shrinking, Calais, France not on the list... 
            tourenfahrer . de / reise / autoreisezuege - in -
            europa / 2021-01-14: 
            politico . eu / article / ferry - firms - avoid -
            britain - with - brexit - buster - services - from -
            ireland - to - eu /2021-02-14 
            France and Ireland open new ferry routes to bypass
            UK
          
         
          
          Solution For EU
        Border Dover : Regular Kent Traffic Chaos from Lack Of
        French Border Police At DoverSome Dover & Kent Chaos Dates:
          2023-04-01 &2022-07-23 www
          . bbc . co . uk / news / uk - england - kent -
          62273523
            SOLUTION FOR DOVER
              When France regularly fails to provide near
              enough staff to Dover, the Dover Harbour
              Board should actively randomly funnel enough
              vehicles to keep French border guards fully loaded,
              & redirect the overflow past the French
              congestion, on into the port, (to the 2nd check
              point, the (usually un-manned) UK Border Force
              posts).At 2022-08-04, Dover Harbour Board
              fail to provide a webcam to view queue length of
              their badly managed entry queue. Search for a
              webcam for Dover UK (Not Dover USA)
                Dover Harbour traffic control
                staff could optionally issue windscreen mirror
                hangers only to vehicles they direct in to queues
                for French border police at Dover.On the back, it could be stated:
 
                  After parking your vehicle on the boat,
                  Optionally remove your ferry company's mirror
                  hanger, and/ or hang this longer mirror hanger
                  behind the ferry company's so the "Checked At Dover" logo & date at the
                  base, hangs visibly. .French frontier police at Calais, France may prioritise you
                  if you display "French Checked In Dover".Calais, France has masses
              of space (built on concrete on sand dunes) for border
              processing both ways, but there's very little space
              at Dover, (built on concrete on
              piles driven into see beyond the cliffs).All border processing in both directions would
              better be done at Calais,
              France.The reason the French in recent decades switched
              from Calais, France, to inspect
              France arrivals at Dover , is it
              was(pre Brexit) more
              efficient & less queuing to receive vehicles in a
              steady flow, rather than have delays in Calais, France, from surges of traffic
              as ferries unload at Calais,
              France.Returning the French border from Dover back to Calais,
              France would move any Dover
              to Calais, France French/EU
              created queue chaos back to Calais,
              France port, relieving Dover
              harbour, & town & M20 & Kent.Easier for French government to rustle up more
              border guards at short notice for work in Calais, France, not having to wait
              while they travel from France to Dover to work.French TV would more likely show problems in Calais, France than Dover. French TV viewers & voters
              would become more aware its a French/ EU insistence
              on stamping all passports that causes _their_
              congestion in Calais, France.
              Leave France, a member of the EU to negotiate how to
              solve their problem. EU government does not care
              while it remains just a British problem within the
              UK.
                If the French government respond by sulking &
                retaliating & refuse to let British
                Border Force work in Calais,
                France 
                
                  Britain could still examine arrivals at Dover, it would just introduce
                  some delay just within the port of Dover, as ships unloaded, but
                  nowhere near the current mega delays in town of
                  Dover & the M20 would no
                  longer be massively congested either way, &
                  would avoid the lethal contra flow & smart
                  motorway & movable barriers idiocies Brexit brought.If the French withdrew [some] facilities at
                  Calais, France from UK
                  Border Force, (perhaps along with UK Customs),
                  & if Border Force needed to set up at Dover, could be considered.As Dover wouldn't need so
                  much queue space for departures, that space could
                  be used by British
                  Border Force
Costs: Consider the massive costs of M20
              modifications, Lorry Parks, Operation Brock, &
              ongoing costs to UK & Kent economy:
              All wasted tax payer money, because while
              Miss-planning Brexit, the politicians were stupid
              enough Not to return the French border from Dover back to Calais,
              France !
            Forward ideas to politicians, journalists or government
            department etc.Don't suffer & just moan - Tell politicians to fix
            their mess!
 Contacts to explore:
Postings to mailman
          . berklix . org / mailman / listinfo /
          brexit
            Who To Blame ? Its more important to fix the problem,
            than who to blame. So ignore anyone who just Blames
            & fails to Solve ! That said there are some who
            deserve some blame: 
            
              Incompetent UK & French & EU government
              planners: They had many years to plan Brexit ! eg The
              UK spent years harassing UK company directors to plan
              their companies Brexit strategies; but incompetent UK
              government failed to plan it's own Brexit border
              strategy.French stamping all passports of all Brits
              resident in UK is further daftness. French border
              police have a time consuming crisis when they
              encounter a British passport they previously stamped
              more than 3 months ago (at random in middle of
              passport, so they have to search each page of every
              passport in the queue at Dover,
              in case a previous idiot colleague in French border
              police has done the same in others!), searching for
              other without a matching EU exit stamp in last 3
              months of 6 months elapsed).French have delayed the queue, asking me Not to show
              them my UK passport next time, but to show my German
              residence permit. But it's too late now. They stamped
              "Douvres" in my passport at Dover!
French President Macron; Deliberately awkward
              responding to Brexit, (Same
              pettiness as his stated intent to bring " 
              Merde" 
              
               to French citizens who were not vaccinated.) The
              shortage of French frontier police at Dover, is not from Corona, or "technical issues" (The
              French government excuse). They do it too often.Some corrupt con men politicians who profited
              from Brexit &
              lied what Brexit involved, & some corrupt
              financiers who funded them, some foreigners illegally
              corrupting UK politics, to fund some pro Brexit paid
              media aka adverts etc. & of course some of the
              ignorant electorate: Turkeys who voted for Christmas
              !Disbelieve Brexiteer /
              Con-Servative officials who assert it will go away
              later with electronic stamping - The incompetents had
              years to plan Brexit, & Failed us, The traveling
              public paid taxes for these rogues salaries! Sack
              incompetent managers and lieing politicians! 
          The generic term Migrants is used, not the specific term
          Refugees, because it depends where someone comes from,
          & conditions there, & reason for movement, &
          laws vary, & until people are classified by local law
          as legal refugees, illegal migrants, or whatever other
          spectrum of names, the generic word Migrant is used, as
          is used in eg annual bird migrations, summer migrations
          cross channel also increase in summer
         [some]Incidents
        in reverse chronological order
          
            2023-04-01
            Dover
            ferry passengers warned of long delays as coaches queue
            up 
            
              "Simon Calder, travel correspondent at the
              Independent, said processing times since leaving the
              EU had increased sharply "and that would seem to
              explain the delays". Speaking to BBC Breakfast, he said that each
              individual passport must now be inspected and stamped
              - and that having an EU border at Dover meant things
              were "gumming up".
 "
               Solution is to evict the
              under staffed troublesome- since- Brexit, French
              customs border back to Calais where they have far
              more vehicle space & can find/ divert extra
              French border police at shorter notice, not waiting
              for them to travel from France to UK ! Blame Order: 
                Blame France: imposing EU rules excessively:
                [BBC wrote?] they want all passengers off busses to
                inspect passports: Will take ages with busses of
                pensioners. [Un-necessary as when Austria
                wasn't in EU, at German / Austrian border I recall
                seen customs walk down centre of bus inspecting
                passports, (as well as some off bus action,
                presumably checking some cases underneath, with
                some case owners off the buss). + On a German train
                customs walked down train, after we came from
                Belgium (& UK before that)]Blame EU: for the their paranoid "no Brits in
                Europe longer than 3 months " rule. [Its not
                Brits who want to flood the EU, but mmigrants from
                South & East of the Med!.]Blame British Turkeys who voted for Christmas:
                those who voted for Brexit. 
              2023-04-03: BBC:
              "Post-Brexit checks contributed to Dover delay, says
              No 10"  but will they evist the French border from
              Dover ?
            
            2023-03-03: BBC: Fire
            on Isle of Innisfree ... 94 passengers and 89 crew,
            owned by Irish Ferries. 
            
              (I'll still use it. I feel safer with multiple
              exits to decks, than on a DFDS ship I regularly
              previously used, that just has 2 long corridors to
              open deck, one sometimes closed, & both easier
              blocked in a panic.)
             BBC Radio 4 additionally said: due to persistent
            engine failure, ferry anchored mid channel 
              (Shallower than I thought then ? or long chain ?
              or more likely not mid channel, but mid route, cos
              ferries from Dover goes across toward France at right
              angle (to avoid oblique longer exposure to collision
              mid channel I assume), then turns left=port=East,
              parallel along French coast to Calais.)
             On a previous trip 2022-06-22 or 2022-07-03, after
            boarding we had a Long wait before we could exit to any
            deck, as the ship was still bunkering (=refueling) -
            presumably fire risk. (We wanted to be on open deck to
            reduce covid-19
            risk.) Not certain which ship, but was Irish FerriesAfter some sailing noticing lifeboats with no plugs
          in the drain holes, I photoed every lifeboat in same
          condition. Complained up to First officer, who came up
          with lame excuse, in event of emergency a member of staff
          is detailed to each boat to put a plug in. Response:
          & if he twists his ankle or otherwise doesn't arrive
          in the chaos, the lifeboat will launch without - &
          sink. Ferry company was risking passengers lives, to
          reduce labour cost, avoiding routine temporary removal of
          plugs to drain sea spray! 
          
           Which ferry co & ship ? : Photos when I find
          them.Herald of Free Enterprise. Sunk,
          sailed out of port with Bow door up 
          Even if a port is marked here as "No Car Ferries", still
          listed as shipping operators, as to quote a friend
          Truck ferries used to allow cars, just didn't
          advertise. I think Dunkirk,
          France, France - Dover was truck
          only originally.
   Corona legal
        restrictions on travel constantly change, so this page
        links to reference sources, but does not include age-ing
        info that would need maintenance.
          
            Index Of Countries Corona Border Regulations
            Which
            Corona info to trust where ? Who is
            authoritative on legal requirements ? 
            
              
                Best [if one can] trust the Official web site of
                government of the country you will visit describing
                their own requirements. 
                
                  (But French government web pages weren't
                  up to date for a week or more after the Omicron
                  panic, & France even banned French living in
                  London, returning to France for Xmas, then
                  relaxed a tad, allowing Brits who lived in France
                  to return to France, but still banned transit of
                  other EU citizens back from UK via France to
                  other EU countries, then allowed (&
                  documented on web) transit back from UK of
                  unaccounted Brits resident in other EU
                  states.)
                
                Use just as hints, to then search on
                official sites: 
                
                  Your home country's government page about
                  other countries regulations (may be wrong or old)
                  .Ferry & Tunnel operators web pagesMedia
                Do not trust non government sites, eg commercial
                travel providers.eg; Do not believe 
                Chunnel: "Our understanding of the UK
                Government's position is that" about
                quarantine exemption. Instead read gov.uk 
                rules & 
                job exemptions
            ENGLAND 
            
              
                TO ENGLAND: 
                
                  
                  gov . uk / guidance / travel - to - england -
                  from - another - country - during - coronavirus -
                  covid - 19("You can take the test any time after you
                  arrive and before the end of day 2 at the latest.
                  The day you arrive in England is day
                  0.")
                    Pre departure test: 
                    gov . uk / guidance / coronavirus - covid - 19
                    - testing - for - people - traveling - to -
                    england # type - of - test 
                    
                      The test must meet performance standards
                      of #97% specificity, #80% sensitivity at
                      viral loads above 100,000 copies/ml.For comparison,This could include tests such as:
 a nucleic acid test, including a PCR
                      test
 a 
                      LAMP test
 an antigen test, such as an LFD (lateral
                      flow device) test
 You must check with your test provider that
                      the test meets the standards. You may not be
                      able to travel if it does not.
 The test could be either:
 a face-to-face or in-person test
 a self-administered test
                    Before arrival,
                    Booking the Day 2 PCR Test 
                    
                  
                    Passenger Locator Form, filled before arrival,
                    needs the order number of the Day 2 PCR Test 
                    gov . uk / provide - journey - contact -
                    details - before - travel - ukForm needs the detail from booking the Day 2
                    PCR Test
 
                      Last I looked: Typical badly worded UK
                      government corona 
                      web page with the 'must' in "You must
                      complete the form online." & GBP 100 fine
                      & "You cannot submit the form until 48
                      hours before you're due to arrive in the UK."
                      Though further reading back then referred to
                      filling form on arrival. Doubtless all
                      changed weekly. But Not everyone has
                      internet, especially while traveling, &
                      itineraries can change, on factors inc.
                      various government's frequent snap rule
                      changes.
                    
                FROM ENGLAND: 
                
              
            FRANCE 
            
              
                TO FRANCE FROM UK: 
                
              
                gouvernement . fr / en / news 
                
                  @ 2022-02-21 Useless: - Last item was "10
                  September 2020"@ 2022-06-06 Obsolete - Whole directory is
                  gone & redirects to URL OK 2022-06-06: www .
                  gouvernement . fr
For old pages: URL OK 2022-06-06: 
                  archive . org 
          
            GERMANY 
            
              
                TO GERMANY FROM UK 
                
                  
                    By German Government 
                    
                  
                    By UK Government: 
                    
                  
                FROM GERMANY TO UK: 
                
                  By UK Government
                    
                  
                    By German Government 
                    
                   UK Government: Maritime and Coastguard Agency & 
        Maritime passenger rights
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