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Easter offers Dover misery
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• Lorry drivers are bracing themselves for hours of misery at Dover this Easter weekend as striking seamen prepare to disrupt ferry services.
P&O Ferries, the company at the centre of the dispute, has already cancelled all of its weekend sailings, and the Dover authorities predict some of the worst tailbacks since the strike began two months ago as tourists in cars flock to the port bound for France.
All was quiet at the Eastern docks earlier this week as competing company Sealink worked hard to clear the queues of lorries which had been building up on the Jubilee Way approach road over the weekend.
Pickets handed leaflets to lorry drivers as they entered the docks explaining the seamen's case.
Graham Eames of Transfrigoroute, the reefer operators' association which is sueing the seamen over lost orders, says more of his members will lose vital deliveries this weekend: "Some small hauliers are taking eight to 10 days to deliver what they would normally do in four.