Eurotunnel
Eurotunnel plc (in the
UK) and Eurotunnel SA (in
France) make up the Eurotunnel Group, founded in August 1986, which manages and operates the
Channel Tunnel between the UK and France.It operates the
car shuttle and earns revenue on other trains (freight by
EWS and
SNCF and passenger service by
Eurostar) passing through the tunnel. However, passenger numbers are around one-third of the original projections.Heavily indebted, the company has been struggling with the interest on the
£10bn it has taken to construct the tunnel. The tunnel cost nearly 6 times more than expected to build and Eurotunnel's debts are around
£6.2bn. Its profits cannot even match its interest payments. In order to deal with this, many cuts in services have been introduced with varying success and a third of the staff has been laid off.
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Eurotunnel
Eurotunnel
Der Eurotunnel, auch Kanaltunnel genannt, ist ein 50 Kilometer langer
Eisenbahntunnel unter der Meeresstraße
Ärmelkanal zwischen
Folkestone in
Kent (
England) und Coquelles nahe
Calais (
Frankreich).Das lange geplante und sehr kostspielige Tunnelbauprojekt, dem einige fehlgeschlagene Baupläne vorangingen, wurde 1994 vollendet. Der Eurotunnel besteht aus zwei eingleisigen Haupttunneln für die Züge und einem zweispurigen Servicetunnel für schmale Fahrzeuge.
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