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Eurotunnel Group has sold the two ferries used on its former MyFerryLink operation to DFDS. The Berlioz (now Côte des Flandres) and Rodin (now Côte des Dunes) will transfer to their new owner under the terms agreed June 2015.
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Eurotunnel is taking delivery of its first new shuttle rolling stock since 1999, in response to surging freight demand. It introduced the first of three new 35-wagon freight shuttle trains (32 truck carrying wagons and three loading wagons) in February, with a further two due to go into service in ...
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Eurotunnel’s Le Shuttle Freight carried 1,483,741 trucks between 1 January and 25 November, the same number as in the whole of 2015, which was itself a record breaking year. In the first ten months of 2016, Le Shuttle Freight grew by more than 12%, largely outperforming the market, which only ...
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The Channel Tunnel has fundamentally changed the way the UK does business, and accounts for a massive slice of the entire UK’s exports and imports, says a new report by consultants Ernst & Young.
In 1994, the Tunnel handled trade worth £91.4bn, or a quarter of all UK trade in goods ...
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A business coalition, including DP World London Gateway, Port of Tilbury, Port of Dover, Port of London Authority, Navigator Terminals, Eurotunnel, Claridon Group, the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association have written to the Chancellor calling for an urgent ministerial decision on the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) scheme. ...
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Eurotunnel Group (GET) is to sell its GB Railfreight arm to Scandinavian investment firm EQT Infrastructure II and will use the money to strengthen its core activity. GBRf, the UK’s third-largest rail operator in the UK, was acquired in 2010 for £25 and has since more than doubled its activities, ...
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The government said today that a new 3,600-lorry parking area near Dover will go ahead after all, despite widespread controversy over the plan.
The announcement comes only weeks after the House of Commons Transport Committee said more should be done to demonstrate the benefits of such a scheme.
Committee chair, Louise Ellman ...
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The House of Commons Transport Committee says more should be done to demonstrate that proposal for a lorry park to alleviate the effects of disruption at the port of Dover will deliver, in its Operation Stack report. However, the Government is right to seek a solution to the problem, it says.
It ...
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With more than 139,200 trucks transported, Eurotunnel says its freight shuttle service carried its highest April traffic since the start of commercial operations and the sixth month in a row that a record has been set. April 2016 was also the third best month ever for the Le Shuttle Freight ...
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One of the people who made the Channel Tunnel a reality, André Bénard has died. Chairman of Eurotunnel during the construction phase alongside his UK counterpart, Sir Alastair Morton, he is described as one of the most important architects of the project, running the business from the signing of the ...
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