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In August 2018, Le Shuttle Freight is pursuing its path and recorded the best August in its history with 130,926 trucks transported, establishing the fourth consecutive monthly traffic record. Since 1 January, 1.1 million trucks have crossed the Channel onboard Le Shuttle Freight.

With 144,990 trucks transported in July 2018, Le Shuttle Freight recorded the best July in its history, and the third-best traffic ever just after March 2018 and March 2017. Since 1 January, nearly a million trucks have crossed the Channel onboard Le Shuttle Freight.

With 142,016 trucks transported in June 2018, Le Shuttle Freight recorded the best June in its history, beating the previous record established in June 2016. Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight has achieved a historic half-year establishing a new record with more than 845,000 trucks transported since 1 January.

Our Truck Park in Coquelles will officially open on Tuesday 26th June 2018. Conveniently located within our French terminal, customers benefit from the highest level of security with lighting, high fences, CCTV cameras, thermal detection, regular patrols and 24/7 monitoring from our dedicated Control Centre.

With 143,924 trucks transported in May 2018, Le Shuttle Freight recorded the best May in its history with traffic growth of 2% compared to May 2017. Since 1 January 2018, truck traffic is up by 3% and with more than 703,000 trucks transported, a new record has been set for the first five months of the year.

The report shows for the first time the detail of the traffic flows managed by Eurotunnel between the UK and its 5 principal European partners (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland). The total amount of trade passing through the Tunnel each year has increased to almost €140 billion, with imports and exports being almost equal. This represents hundreds of thousands of jobs on both sides of the Channel and this value has increased significantly over the last two years.

Eurotunnel’s sustainability efforts boosted with completion of new cooling system in landmark Channel Tunnel that delivers energy savings of at least 33 percent or 4.8GWh per year.Eurotunnel today released official data demonstrating energy savings of 33 percent after the first season of operating a new cooling system for maintaining requisite temperatures in the landmark Channel Tunnel.