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Dunkerque ro ro down but boxes leap

Ro-ro traffic through Dunkerque fell by 7% in tonnage terms to 13.7mt and by 15% in numbers of units, said the port in its latest annual figures published on 13 January. It attributed the fall to Brexit factors  including stockpiling ahead of the 1 January 2021 deadline, which inflated 2020 figures. However, in its first year of operation, the new DFDS Dunkerque/Rosslare freight ro ro service moved 53,000 accompanied and unaccompanied ... [+]