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The Port of Boulogne Calais said it showed i resilience in a 2019 marked by Brexit uncertainty and industrial action by customs officers in the spring.
Despite Brexit uncertainty and a customs officer strike in Spring traffic at Calais held up well at 1 813 067 units (down 4.6%), just 90 000 fewer HGVs thanin 2018 and retaining the port’s 46% market share. The Channel market as a whole experienced an ...
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Boulogne Calais says it has become the only European port to obtain quadruple ISO certification for all its sites and activities. It has just obtained simultaneous certification of its management systems in the fields of Quality, Environment, Health and Safety at Work and, finally, Food Safety. It now meets the ...
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A work-to-rule by French customs officers that led to queues of lorries on roads leading to the French Channel has ended, say cross-Channel ferry operators. A spokesman for P&O Ferries said on Thursday 7 March that only 300 trucks were now in the overflow area at the port of Calais, ...
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On the eve of 15 January’s Brexit vote in the House of Commons, the port of Calais published details of the new facities it had created in anticipation of a ‘No Deal’ outcome.
Port Boulogne Calais says it has been working closely with government services, transport associations, maritime operators, veterinary inspection ...
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French Railways’ VIIA arm has added a second rail motorway service into Calais, from Turin. The new route, which runs twice a day from the Italian city’s Orbassano terminal, complements the existing twice-daily route from Le Boulou on the French-Spanish border, to Calais, inaugurated in March 2016. Transit time is ...
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Cross-Channel truck traffic continued the recovery that started in 2016 last year following the dismantling of the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp, said the port of Boulogne Calais. With a record 1.99 million vehicles transported, heavy goods vehicle traffic increased by 4.25% in 2017. However, market share has not yet returned to ...
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The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the plans for an additional £44.5 million to be spent on strengthening security at Calais and other French ports, announced by the UK and Frwench governments yesterday (18 January).
The money will be used for fencing, CCTV and infrared detection technology in Calais and other ...
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The driver of a Polish-registered van has died after crashing into stationary trucks forced to a stop by a migrant barricade on the A16 motorway near Calais early on the morning of 20 June.
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is calling on the French government to take urgent action, saying that ...
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Boulogne Calais Port has bounced back from a difficult year in 2016 to achieve a record quarter in the first three months of 2017.
The renewed pick-up in freight traffic allowed the Port of Calais to realise the best quarter, with an absolute record in March when 181.005 cargo units which ...
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Boulogne Calais port said that a good fourth quarter in 2016 had brought hope in an otherwise difficult year in 2016. Truck traffic suffered from the presence of migrants around the port up until October and the port lost some market share as it only managed to grow its freight ...
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