2024: Port Boulogne Calais maintains its momentum

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  • Tourist traffic was up by 11% in Calais. 7.6 million passengers (+4%) and 1.4 million vehicles. 68,000 coaches (+13%) used the infrastructure last year, i.e. 3 out of 4 coaches on the Dover Strait.
  • Freight traffic remained steady at 1.8 million units, representing a tonnage of almost 40 million tonnes. On the Strait, more than one lorry in two chooses to use the Port of Calais.
  • Commercial terminal activity rose by 5% to 1.3 million tonnes.
  • Rail motorway services set a new record with 46,000 units, up 10%. 1/3 of freight units transported on rail motorways in France are destined for or depart from the Port of Calais.
  • Traffic in new vehicles increased by a factor of 2.5 over 2024, with 25,000 units.

2021, an exceptional year for Port Boulogne Calais

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In 2021, Port Boulogne Calais experienced a very full year which could be
described as “extraordinary”:

  • the entry into force of Brexit and the United Kingdom’s exit from the Common Market
  • the COVID-19 health crisis
  • the arrival of a third cross-Channel company, Irish Ferries
  • the start of the DFDS roro service Calais-Sheerness (temp. suspended in January 2022)
  • the opening of the new port of Calais which marks the completion of 6 years of work on the largest port site in Europe at the start of the century

Cross-Channel activity: 
-1.0% cargo 38,199,399 tonnes
-1.4% freight 1,638,695 units
-27% passengers 2,387,757
-42% passenger vehicles 248,217