>>1589982>Isn't Dover symbolically the entrance to the UK?what - trying hard not to phrase this in a way that sounds like 'fuck you', bear with me - what do you expect? it's for vehicle traffic following a short two-hour ferry journey across the channel. ferry comes in, cars and HGVs come out. i know for certain that DFDS don't carry non-vehicle-traffic pedestrians (that require check-in desks, waiting areas, shops + food places, onward travel arrangements like bus stops etc), i don't know about P&O but i dont think they do either.
the only real "barrier" at the port of dover is customs/border force and the ferry check-ins, it's all it needs. everything that people might need, like food places, currency converters etc, will be on the ferries.
see the image i've attached? it's the uk's busiest port by tonnage, handling roughly 46 million tonnes of cargo per year (steel, timber, oil, paper, grain etc). without googling, try and guess where it is. no, nobody else gets it either lol. anyway it's roughly two and a quarter miles end to end, as the crow flies, so a liiitttle bit smaller than heathrow. which you're probably thinking of as a comparison.
