United Kingdom ports
This section is relevant to ports in the United Kingdom and explains the impact that our e-Borders programme will have on them.
Two aspects of the e-Borders programme will have an impact on ports in the United Kingdom. These are explained below.
Carrier rollout
Carriers that operate to and from the United Kingdom are required to provide advance electronic information about passengers and crew under our e-Borders programme. Because ports provide the infrastructure in which carriers operate, we expect that some carriers will want to discuss (or have already discussed) aspects of the e-Borders programme with ports. We have begun the implementation phase of the programme with carriers.
There is more information about the requirements for:
Port rollout
We want to start making electronic border control a reality at ports from early 2009, to enable us to reinforce our controls. From early 2009 we will start to talk to individual ports in stages. At that time, our main requirement will be for ports to co-operate with us and other agencies as we install the equipment we will require for our border enforcement activities. We plan to have the e-Borders programme operating at all ports by September 2012.
The main activities of the rollout plan for each port will include:
- stakeholder engagement - identify the site implementation officer;
- preparation for site rollout - review and agree plan with site and arrange access;
- business change and training;
- pre-site rollout - site surveys;
- rollout - equipment delivery, installation, test and go live; and
- closure - port rollout review to learn lessons for the next rollout.
In the coming months, we will publish more detailed information about how we plan to fully introduce our new electronic controls.
Terms explained
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Carrier
A person or organisation that transports passengers or goods in and out of the United Kingdom.
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e-Borders
e-Borders is the name of a programme we have set up to introduce electronic border control to the United Kingdom by 2014. It will collect and analyse passenger and crew information provided electronically by carriers (airlines, rail and shipping companies) before travel starts on all journeys to and from the United Kingdom.