A decision to prioritise passenger checks last year meant that illegal immigrant checks on freight had been suspended, the committee said.
Our security checking for freight includes up-to-the-minute heartbeat scanners and wave sensor technology to detect bodies in lorries, alongside the good old fashioned sniffer dogs.
The model showed that with tourist and freight check-in transactions extended by exit checks, the queue for traffic heading for the port of Dover would extend at least 8.5km, blocking the A20 almost as far as Folkestone".
It said there was no waiting time before check-in for freight traffic, but due to an earlier cancellation, the journey from check-in to arrival in France would take about two hours.
The UK government has suggested larger companies would have pre-approved "trusted trader status", avoiding the need for checks as their freight passes in or out of Northern Ireland.
The committee, chaired by the prime minister, David Cameron, discussed whether the apparent security flaw revealed by the failure of initial tests to detect the explosive PETN required a new regime of checks for air freight, or even for passengers.
From her spot checks of factories, freight forwarders and other companies that had ordered American products subject to export controls, Commerce officials say, it was clear that dual-use goods, including computer equipment, were being diverted on a grander scale than imagined.
The Cobra committee, chaired by David Cameron, must decide whether the apparent security flaw revealed by the failure of initial tests to detect the explosive PETN hidden carefully within printer cartridges requires a new regime of checks for air freight, or even for passengers.
The prospect of runaway legislation has checked the recovery freight train.
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