What is the income of Eurotunnel?

At €1.049 billion, Eurotunnel revenue saw an increase of 63% at a constant exchange rate, a level never before seen for this business. Revenue from the Shuttle business increased by 53% to €732 million compared to 2021, in a context marked by the return of tourist traffic, thus confirming people's appetite for travel.



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While the aviation industry remains in chaos with airports and airlines racking up billions of pounds of losses, the Channel Tunnel has returned to profit. Eurotunnel operates the sub-sea link between England and France, running Le Shuttle trains for cars and lorries.

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Financing Eurotunnel. Eurotunnel is the largest privately- financed infrastructure in history by a long way. In what it has achieved it has been a stunning success—in its current financial situation it is obviously also a failure at this stage if measured by return on investment.

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The group has debts of more than £6 billion and media reports suggest directors are keen on offering a debt-for-equity swap for as much as £2bn of the debt, UK national newspapers reported this week.

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Getlink, previously Groupe Eurotunnel (until 2017), is a public company that manages and operates the Channel Tunnel, including the Eurotunnel Shuttlevehicle services, and earns revenue on other trains through the tunnel (DB Schenker freight and Eurostar passenger trains).

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Unless, of course, there's been even a single, small, partial collapse anywhere below water; such a failure would allow effecively (relative to the ability of pre-industrial equipment to deal with it) unlimited water to flow in as water is removed, rendering the tunnel permanently closed.

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The carriage is lit and there are toilet facilities available. You can get out and walk around, but there is nowhere to go. Toilets are fine. You mustn't smoke or take flash photos because they have smoke and flash detectors that are very sensitive and can stop the train.

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The cost of flights and car hire has significantly increased since the pandemic, making Eurotunnel a much cheaper way to travel to Europe, particularly for groups and families. If you have multiple people in your car it's likely to work out cheaper than flights.

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17. The lining of the tunnel is designed to last for 120 years. 18. It takes around 35 minutes to travel the length of the Channel Tunnel.

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For a few worrying months, with lockdowns in places and travel quarantines required for most, the high-speed train service was operating a single service a day to Paris and Brussels from London, provided mainly for key workers. In 2019, the last “normal” year of travel, Eurostar recorded a healthy £62.4m profit.

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