The Eurotunnel is a trucking logistics dream for European trucking transport firms that bring goods back and forth across the channel. 2010 will mark the 16th year since the Eurotunnel first began operations and the 15 electrically-powered shuttles that bring freight back and forth across the England Channel have been going at it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, since that time. The truck shuttles go back and forth across the English Channel an average of 160 times every day, rain or shine, and close to 60,000 times each year. Almost a million trucks are brought across the English Channel every year using the Eurotunnel and this number is expected to stay steady or improve in the future. In fact, the Eurotunnel leads the world in the number of container transports that are transported using its truck shuttle service.
Yesterday, the Eurotunnel reached a milestone marker in its history when the fifteenth million truck was loaded onto a truck shuttle and brought across the English Channel to the City of Folkestone. A historic moment in freight transport history that will be remembered in the years ahead, especially when we reach similar milestones in the history of the Eurotunnel, the transportation of the fifteenth million truck on the truck shuttle service of the Eurotunnel will mark a time when we celebrated the success of the dream that is the Eurotunnel. A dream that has provided a safe way to move freight from the European continent to the British Isles and back, the Eurotunnel was once considered a mad dream by many. Yet today, many truckers would be working somewhere else or in another industry if they weren’t sitting in a truck waiting to be loaded onto a shuttle heading across the English Channel through the Eurotunnel.
The Eurotunnel was a dream that just had to wait for its time and the past sixteen years has been part of a time when the Eurotunnel transformed the industry of freight trucking. What’s next for the Eurotunnel? Your guess is as good as mine! One thing we do know is that the Eurotunnel will continue to reach freight transportation roadmarks that astound the mind.
http://www.transportweekly.com/pages/en/news/articles/68868/
http://www.eurotunnel.com/ukcP3Main/ukcCor…ionth-Truck.htm
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