The Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) is a

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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 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 needed to go live. The system was partially introduced on 1st January, 2021. In September 2020, a survey of hauliers showed that over half had not heard of the existence of the GVMS.

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