The Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) is a

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border control Border control refers to measures taken by governments to monitor and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across land, air, and maritime borders. While border control is typically associated with international borders, it a ...

information technology system for coordinating the movement of vehicles. It is part of the government's measures for dealing with post-

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trade. The system is estimated to need to process 400 million customs declarations per year. The system will need to go live in January 2021. , the system is still in

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, and user testing of the system had only just started, with four months to go before the system needs to go live. In September 2020, a survey of hauliers showed that over half had not heard of the existence of the GVMS.

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