Le Shuttle cross-Channel rail freight service recorded an all-time high for daily traffic in January, transporting 7,023 trucks in both directions. This is up three per cent on the previous record from March 2008.
The record-breaking...Read more
Getlink is the new name for Groupe Eurotunnel, the parent company of Eurotunnel, which runs the Le Shuttle Freight service linking mainland Europe and the UK, and Europorte, France’s leading private rail freight operator. The...Read more
A resurgence in freight traffic through the Channel Tunnel is down to improved security procedures aimed at preventing UK-bound migrants boarding moving trains, according to operator Eurotunnel.
It also says that in the context of the...Read more
Le Shuttle Freight set a new daily record on June 8, when it transported 3,822 trucks in 24 hours between Calais and Folkestone via its Channel Tunnel rail service. This beat the previous record of...Read more
Eurotunnel has strengthened its rail freight fleet by investing 40 million Euros in the acquisition of three new ‘third generation’ freight shuttles. Built by WBN Waggonbau Niesky (WBN), each one of the 800 metre-long shuttles...Read more
Europorte, the rail freight subsidiary of the Eurotunnel Group, has signed an agreement with the four main French transport workers’ unions which sets out new working time arrangements in the light of ongoing reforms to...Read more
Eurotunnel has welcomed the 25 millionth truck to use its Le Shuttle Freight Service since operations began in July 1994. The truck, from a fleet operated by express courier specialist UPS, was carrying packages from...Read more
A record number of freight wagons were transported across the Channel by Le Shuttle’s freight service in 2016. For the full year 2016, the company carried a total of 1,641,638 trucks, a rise of 11...Read more
Le Shuttle Freight carried as many trucks between the start of the year and the end of November as the whole of 2015, the company has announced. A total of 1,483,741 trucks were moved between...Read more
