The UK's leading rail freight operator, EWS, has advised the Petitions Committee in the European Parliament that the Republic of France is in breach of obligations contained in the Treaty of Rome by not preventing asylum seekers from disrupting the movement of freight trains through the Channel tunnel from France to Britain.
EWS said that since the French authorities began restricting Channel tunnel freight trains heading to Britain in November last year, 1,383 asylum seekers have been found by its security staff at the Dollands Moor rail freight yard in Folkestone and over 3,000 services have been cancelled....
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Approx 220 words from WorldCargo News, May 2002,
page 19.
