Freight acquisitions boost Eurotunnel revenue

摘要

The 27% year-on-year rise in revenue to €212.1 m in Quarter 3 of 2010, reported by Eurotunnel on October 18, is mainly due to the inclusion of earnings from the four French freight operators purchased from Veolia on November 30 2009, to which earnings from GB Rail-freight acquired on May 28 2010 have also been added.rnEven excluding these new income streams, the Q3/Q3 revenue increase was still a healthy 8%. This was earned entirely by Eurotunnel's shuttle operations, which saw the number of lorries carried jump by 50% to 282 976, and cars by 15% to 715 737.