{"id":326389,"date":"2025-12-20T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:56:07","slug":"port-of-dover-christmas-getaway-delays-due-to-it-issues-in-calais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326389\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Dover Christmas getaway delays due to IT issues in Calais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Long queues of travellers have formed at the Port of Dover, which are being blamed on IT issues at French border controls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The situation has been described as &#8220;absolute chaos&#8221; by one traveller, and images of the port show a long line of vehicles queuing at a standstill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 30,000 cars are expected to pass through Dover this weekend as the Christmas getaway reaches its peak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doug Bannister, the port&#8217;s chief executive, said: &#8220;There are still some ongoing (IT) issues, which are causing increased wait times whilst traffic is being processed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long queues of travellers have formed at the Port of Dover, which are being blamed on IT issues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-326389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}