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In increase the economic results of the Eurotunnel group
Stable the volume of traffic fleeting in 2015. Decrease of the goods
February 19, 2016
In the exercise the 2015 Eurotunnel group, that it manages the railway tunnel under the English Channel, has recorded revenues for 1,22 billion euros, with an increase of +10% regarding the value of the exercise anniversary precedence rectified on the base of the value to take it in turns used pound-euro in order to clearly write up the economic account of a 2015 and with increase of +5% regarding the value of the exercise anniversary 2014 to the results of the activity of MyFerryLink, the company of navigation to which - as a result of a sentence of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) of the United Kingdom - by on July 9, 2015 it is prohibited to operate services marine with departure To have for the European continent and it has been therefore obliged to stop the activity ( on 9 January 2015). The operating profit is piled to 387 million euros (+2%; +10% to clearly of the activity of MyFerryLink) and the profit clearly have been attested to 100 million euros regarding 74 million euros in 2014 (57 million to clearly of the results of MyFerryLink).
Last year the services railway through the tunnel have transported, as in 2014, 10,4 million passengers. The total of the transported trucks has been pairs almost 1,5 million unit, with an increment of +3%, while motors vehicle and coach are diminished respective of the -1% and the -7% to 2,6 million unit and 58 thousand unit. The freight trains have transported 1,4 million tons of cargos (- 14%).
Eurotunnel has specified that on recorded the economic results and of traffic in 2015 hung the impact negative of the crisis of the migrants in Europe and in particular in the area of Calais, with interruptions of the traffic caused by the attempts carried out from the migrants to go up on the trains that cover the tunnel in particular in the period between june and October of 2015.
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