But when Britain finally leaves the European Union's orbit on December, the 31st Port CEO Doug Banister says it will be ready.

We've been working on Brexit, our contingency planning, everything having to do with it for four years now.

We had a number of trial runs during the course of 2000 and 19 and certainly over the last few months, working partners with Kent, Brazilians for him.

We've tested and tried all the various activities that we need to do to make certain that we are as best prepared as we can be.

It was a similar scene just a few miles across the channel in the port town of Calais on Friday that as you chief negotiator Michelle Barnier warned that time was running out to prevent the most turbulent finale to the Brexit crisis.

Some motive ability.

We're at a moment of truth.

We have very little productive time left for these negotiations a few hours if we want the agreement to come into force on January 1st, the permission of you as our president, Ursula Fonder Lyon told you here two days ago.

There is the possibility of a deal.

That's what I think as a negotiator.

But the path is very narrow.

Mizushima a crazy.

As talks go down to the wire, both sides are demanding that the other compromise on accord would ensure that trade worth nearly a trillion dollars would remain free of tariffs and quotas beyond the end of the year.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told European Commission President Ursula von The Lion on Thursday that talks were in a serious situation.

Johnson, the face of the 2016 Brexit campaign, will ultimately have to decide whether to accept the narrow deal on offer or risk the economic and political chaos that walking away would trigger.