Despite fears of a transport collapse, freight traffic across the Channel continued without major hold-ups and complications in the first hours of Friday after the UK officially quit the EU customs union.
Hundreds of lorries have already travelled between France and Britain in both directions through the Channel Tunnel, while dozens more have been transported by ferries.

“The traffic was strong enough for an exceptional and historic night,” a spokesman for Getlink, the Channel Tunnel’s operator, told AFP, adding that “everything went well."

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