When routing from UK to Europe it doesn’t use the port you would expect and seems to use Portsmouth Port.
In this example you would expect it to use Dover.
If you reverse the route it works as expected.
Hey,
most commonly, this is a data issue where some access restrictions or gates in these port areas are not tagged in a way as to allow routing.
The easiest way around this is to add a “skip segment”, i.e. two waypoints from/to which routing works as expected, and a beeline connection between these two.
Best regards
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Hi @jschnell,
Thank you for help and suggestion. I don’t think this will work for me because I want the routing to suggest the best route so I wouldn’t know which segment to skip.
I need an option to ignore gates at ports.
Hey,
such an option does not exist at the moment, and I am not sure it ever will.
In the end, as this is a data issue, it should get fixed in the data, not in the routing engine.
Unfortunately, this means that the workaround is the best we can provide and that will require manual inspection for the time being 
Best regards
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