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The refugee crisis killed Eurotunnel’s freight traffic by 33%

October 22, 2015

Via: itCurated
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Europe is in the middle of the worst refugee crisis since World War II.

Around 700,000 refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern and African nations are estimated to be arriving in Europe this year and the United Nations forecasted the same amount of asylum seekers for 2016 in Europe.

When some refugees get to France, they head to Calais where some 5,000 migrants are camped out and waiting to get into the UK. One of the ways in which refugees try to come into Britain is through a tunnel that bridges France and the UK underneath the Channel Sea.

However this is now killing the traffic of the operator of the passage, Eurotunnel, because of the security risks.

Eurotunnel revealed in its third quarter trading statement that refugees trying to either break into trucks to illegally enter Britain via the tunnel and those trying to walk through the tunnels themselves have contributed to a huge 33% fall in the number of freight trains using the tunnel during that period.