News / Anger in the UK as chaos at Calais costs Britain's logistics sector £750,000 a day

24/07/2015

The spectre of port congestion and its withering financial impact on supply chains has moved to the UK, as a confluence of the migrant crisis, striking ferry workers and protesting farmers have closed motorways around Calais and halted operations at the port.

Congestion has had a ...

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Robert Jervis
July 24, 2015 at 1:32 pm
A number of hauliers who I have spoken to would add:-
a) The French Police are deliberately letting this happen as they don’t know what to do with the migrants
b) The reaction of the UK Government has been weak and
c) This is an affront to the concept of free movement and the French Government’s response has been non-existant

Robert Jervis
Multimodal

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Steve
July 27, 2015 at 6:24 am
Read the background of this Calais strike, UK goverment caused it, even the high court ruling is clear, these guys at ferry firm were turned over, why not strike? What else do they do, accept it? Farmers on strike, again why? ReAd all the story not just the daily mail view

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