News / Dover ferry operators divert traffic to Dunkirk as strike closes Calais

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DFDS diverted customers onto its ferries to Dunkirk today to mitigate the disruption caused by industrial action in France that forced the closure of the port of Calais.

Strikes across France today, between 8am and 5pm, forced DFDS to cancel all its Dover-Calais services and daily Sheerness-Calais crossing, and P&O Ferries to suspend all but two of its sailings between Dover and Calais.

A spokesperson for DFDS told The Loadstar: “Freight customers are redirected to our Dunkirk-Dover route on arrival in Calais. ...