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TRUCKER JOBS AT RISK * Europe: If Calais mayhem continues
* UK: FTA warns of truck driver job losses as Calais storm swells
(The refugees of Calais, by DW (English), report by Lars Scholtyssyk - Jun 21, 2015: The French port city of Calais is in a state of emergency. Thousands of migrants are living there in illegal camps. Most hope to hitch a ride on a truck going to Britain where they hope to start a new life)
-- British freight organisations are warning of job losses among truck drivers if the migrant meltdown currently engulfing the French port of Calais continues much longer... There are thought to be around 5,000 desperate clandestines massed around Calais, all frantically searching for a way to reach the UK, many of whom have fled civil wars and domestic political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa... The migrants are attempting night after night to either break into UK-bound freight lorries at the French port or stow under or on top of trains using the Le Shuttle services through the Channel Tunnel... One knock-on effect has been to affect the UK automotive supply chain, with some just-in-time operations having to be scaled back, but the Freight Transport Association (FTA) is also warning its members' livelihoods are at stake... "We have had members who are saying we are really finding survival of the business difficult and if they go on, there is a real possibility we might have to park up a proportion of the lorries and drivers could lose their jobs," FTA manager international affairs department, Donald Armour, told just-auto. "What is he [driver] supposed to do if he finds migrants? One driver against 20 migrants is not very fair... "Lives of migrants and HGV drivers are being put at risk. The Government has a duty of care to all British citizens - let that care be shown to the UK hauliers who ask no more than to be able to perform their job of moving the UK economy safely and securely" ...
London, EN, UK - Just Auto, by Simon Warburton - 6 August 2015
Labels: border troubles
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