Through-tunnel freight services
This section explains what we will require from through-tunnel freight services under the e-Borders programme and when we will start to introduce these requirements.
Freight companies will be required to provide crew information to the e-Borders system.
We will start to make formal approaches to freight companies in 2009, to discuss the data they will need to provide to the e-Borders programme. We will publish more information about how we plan to introduce the programme to freight companies at that time.
Terms explained
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Through-tunnel freight services
These are rail services through the Channel Tunnel that carry goods but do not carry passengers.
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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.