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TRUCKERS' TROUBLES AT BORDER * France & UK - Prisoners of the Calais mob: Three days delays in France as more than 3,400 lorries stuck in Kent
* Calais / Kent - Travellers on both sides of the channel faced serious delays due to the striking workers and migrants attempting to enter Europe
-- British lorry drivers endured a third day trapped in their cabs as migrants and strikers ran riot in Calais... In scenes haulage bosses described as ‘absolute mayhem’, the stranded truckers were yesterday forced to beg for food and water in 100F heat. One said: ‘There are no shops, no toilets, you can’t even leave your windows open in case a migrant gets in’ ... Another said his lorry had moved just 500 yards in two days. Huge traffic jams stretched almost 50 miles from Calais and Dunkirk to near the Belgian border...
... Gary Chandler, 48, from Eastbourne, also became stuck in the gridlock on Tuesday. The father of three said he had travelled just 500 yards in two days and was nearly out of water... The authorities in Kent handed out 2,000 bottles of water provided by Tesco and 750 snack meals on Tuesday, and another 5,000 bottles and 200 meals yesterday... Help has also been provided by the Red Cross and portable toilets have been set up along the closed stretch of the M20 where the lorries are waiting in ‘Operation Stack’... The operation is designed to allow lorries trying to make the crossing to queue...
... With lorries and cars gridlocked for 10 miles on the approaches into Calais, hundreds of migrants again tried to break into vehicles heading for England. Migrants crowded around lorries could be seen working together distracting drivers so others could sneak on board, while others pelted journalists and photographers with stones... A Eurotunnel spokesman said there were ‘migrants everywhere’ and that they had moved from attacking trucks to trying to access the terminal directly...
... MyFerryLink was previously owned by Eurotunnel, the company that operates the undersea cross-Channel rail link... Eurotunnel chief executive Jacques Gounon was due to meet French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron on Friday, Mr Vercoutre added... Eurotunnel announced in May it was halting its operational partnership with MyFerryLink due to legal complications, and this month decided to sell its ferries to DFDS... The Danish ferry operator has said it plans to provide work for only 202 of the current 600 MyFerryLink workers...
Calais, France / Kent, UK - The Daily Mail, by ROSIE TAYLOR & and LYDIA WILLGRESS / JENNY STANTON for Mail On Line - 1 July 2015
Labels: border troubles, strikes and protests, truckers stories
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