A ferry with more than 300 people on board ran aground Sunday in high winds at Calais in northern France, interrupting traffic in one of Europe's busiest passenger ports but causing no injuries.
Brits heading across the Channel to France over the Easter period face travel chaos, with the British government set to introduce new passport checks that could cause severe delays.
Rescue workers said on Thursday they had searched extensively for the passenger of a cross-channel ferry who fell overboard overnight off the English coast, to no avail so far.
MyFerryLink Cross-Channel ferries, that are owned by Eurotunnel, have been banned from continuin its service between Calais and the UK port of Dover, competition authorities in London confirmed on Friday. The firm was given six months to end the service.
The daughter of a fugitive Korean tycoon accused of being responsible for last month's ferry disaster has been arrested in France and will appear before a judge Wednesday, judicial sources told AFP.
Authorities in London confirmed on Tuesday that the MyFerryLink Cross-Channel ferries, that are owned by Eurotunnel, are banned from docking in the UK port of Dover. One French media outlet described the move as “a blow from Trafalgar”.
Ten people were injured in a fire on a cross-channel ferry in the British port of Dover on Thursday, but all passengers were evacuated safely, officials said.
A British couple were killed on Friday when their car was crushed between two lorries shortly after disembarking from a ferry at the Channel port of Dunkirk.
A French court on Wednesday handed a manslaughter conviction to the captain and first mate of a British ferry, who chatted about US actor Halle Berry just before the vessel crashed into a fishing boat in the English Channel, killing its skipper.
The crew of a British ferry are set to go before a judge in France on Wednesday accused of manslaughter after their vessel collided with a French fishing boat, killing its captain. The crew were allegedly chatting about actress Halle Berry at the time.
Eurotunnel, the company which runs the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France, is to be stopped from running ferries from Dover to Calais. Their takeover of a French firm could increase consumer prices, a UK watchdog found on Thursday.
Brittany Ferries will resume services Tuesday, company management said, following a pact to end wildcat strikes by French employees that halted services between Britain, France, Ireland and Spain.
Maritime transport company Brittany Ferries suspended all its services between Britain, France, Ireland and Spain on Friday following a series of wildcat strikes by French employees.
<p>Moments after a ferry had set sail from Marseille it had to make an emergency stop after a man on board was attacked with a knife by his brother-in-law yesterday.</p>
