低迷 in 歳入 at Eurotunnel

By Robert Lea
Updated: 00:00 BST, 22 January 2002

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REVENUES at Eurotunnel 低迷d last year as its freight 操作／手術s were 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd by 亡命 探検者s and its telecoms 操作／手術s 苦しむd a 崩壊（する） in sales.

The perennially loss-making 操作者 of the Channel Tunnel 認める that its 無（不）能 to 妨げる 正規の／正選手 急襲s by 違法な immig rants into its French 終点 and into the tunnel itself cost it £20m in lost 歳入 in 2001, 特に during the serious disruption to freight services last spring.

While freight and 乗客 往復（する） services 歳入s were 負かす／撃墜する 2% at £314m for the year and 支払い（額）s by other rail 使用者s rose 1% at £208m, it was a £30m 不足（高） in telecoms 歳入s which accounted for Eurotunnel's 6% 落ちる in total operating 歳入s of £548m.

Eurotunnel has made much of its ability to 生成する 歳入s from telecoms companieswanting to lay cable through the tunnel, but 歳入s last year （機の）カム in at only £27m.

New 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Richard Shirrefs said: 'Eurotunnel's 重要な 的 markets continue to grow にもかかわらず the 現在の 経済的な 不確定.' But there is stark 証拠 that トラックで運ぶing 会社／堅いs and tourists took their 商売／仕事 どこかよそで.

The number of lorries on Eurotunnel's freight services 増加するd by 6% to 1.2m in the year, but that was against market growth on Channel crossings of 10%. Eurotunnel 認める that 示唆するs that many truckers regard passing the Sangatte 移民，移住（する） （軍の）野営地，陣営 の近くに to Eurotunnel's 終点 as too risky.

It 報告（する）／憶測d a 9% 落ちる in the number of 乗り物s using its 往復（する） services - 類似の to the 落ちる 報告（する）／憶測d last week by P&O Stena - against a 6% 落ちる in the cross-Channel market. It is believed Eurostar, whose 乗客 numbers were 負かす／撃墜する only 3% in the year, Sea フラン and Hoverspeed have all taken market 株 from P&O Stena and Le 往復（する）.

The 落ちる in the 乗客 market was 非難するd on the 崩壊（する） in the 大陸の 訪問者 market because of foot-andmouth 病気, though Eurotunnel said its 産する／生じるs had 増加するd by a 落ちる in the number of £50 day-trippers and a rise in £110 short break and £200 long-stay holidaymakers.