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Vosa daims it is barred from Liverpool's Twelve Quays
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By: Joanna Bourke VOSA HAS CLAIMED the owners of Liverpool's Twelve Quays docks in Birkenhead are stopping it from carrying out its duties of enforcement.
According to Vosa, the port claims there has been a fall in volumes because its customers are concerned about the presence of the enforcement body.
As a result, Vosa has been excluded from the docks for the past few weeks, and is now being forced to take HGVs from roads that feed the port to an alternative location for checking.
A Vosa spokeswoman says: "This can lead to inconvenience for drivers and operators because some non-compliance issues can be dealt with more easily in the port environment."
Speaking at the House of Commons Transport Select Committee on 10 December, the outgoing Vosa chief executive Stephen Tetlow said: -It's the moral responsibility of a port to ensure that the vehicles passing through it are safe."
The RO-R0 (roll-on, roll-off) terminal at Twelve Quays is used for freight and passenger transport to and from Belfast and Dublin.
Director of communications at the Freight Transport Association (FTA), Jo Tanner, says: -Operators of safe fleets have nothing to fear from Vosa inspections.
"Road safety is an issue the industry should have front and centre." Vosa is trying to meet with the port to resolve the situation.
No-one from Twelve Quays Port was available for comment.