Migrant crisis: Calais strike cost hauliers millions

THE migrant crisis in the port of Calais is about to explode again as ferry workers there resume their strike after the end of la crise, the traditional month-long summer holiday in France.

Apart from the humanitarian aspects of the situation, livelihoods in the Irish haulage sector, which is worth over €4 billion to the Irish exchequer and is responsible for 50,000 jobs, are in serious jeopardy as a result of the strike which was prompted by 300 job losses at the My Ferry Line company.

Representatives of Irish hauliers will meet Transport Minister Paschal Donohue tomorrow to seek his help in demanding that the French government compensate them for disruption caused by the ferry workers strike.