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Traffic figures

Traffic volumes over 5 years 

 
EUROTUNNEL SHUTTLE SERVICES EUROSTAR RAIL FREIGHT
OPERATORS
Trucks Equivalent in tonnes of  freight carried
(in million)
Cars Coaches Equivlent in passengers
(in million)
Passengers1 Tonnes of rail freight
(in million)
Rail Freight Trains
2009    769,261
10.0
1,916,647 54,547
6.9
9,220,233
1.18
2,403
2008 1,254,282
14.2
1,907,484 55,751 7.0 9,113,371
1.24
2,718
2007 1,414,709
18.4
2,141,573 65,331 7.9 8,260,980
1.21
2,840
2006 1,296,269
16.9
2,021,543 67,201 7.8 7,858,337
1.6
3,786
2005 1,308,786
17
2,047,166 77,267 8.2 7,454,497
1.6
3,902


















1
  Only passengers using Eurostar to cross the Channel are included in this table, thus excluding journeys between
    Paris-Calais and Brussels-Lille.


Channel Tunnel Frequentation

Since commercial services started progressively from May 1994, more than 250 million passengers have travelled through the Channel Tunnel, i.e. the equivalent to 3 times the total population of Germany.

The frequentation figures include passengers travelling onboard Eurotunnel Shuttles by cars, campervans, motorcycles, coaches or trucks as well as on Eurostar trains going through the Channel Tunnel. The above figure can be broken down into 145 million passengers on Eurotunnel Shuttles and 105 million passengers on Eurostar.

This represents an average of more than 46,000 passengers travelling through the Channel Tunnel each day of 2009.

Since the start of commercial Truck Shuttle service in July 1994, Eurotunnel has carried more than 15 million trucks, an equivalent of 194 million tonnes of freight goods, i.e. placed end-to-end these would circle the Earth over 7 times.

To these volumes, we must add over 30 million tonnes of freight carried on rail freight trains through the Channel Tunnel since June 1994.

These represents in total 224 million tonnes of freight transported through the Tunnel.


 
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