FabSwingers.com forum: The truth hurts but.....

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

England has some great container ports such as Liverpool, Harwich, Felixstowe. However, if you have ever actually been to Rotterdam or Antwerp, you can not possibly realise just how insignificant Liverpool really is.

The second busiest port if Britain? It's not in England! (Holyhead)

In Calais, they've built a new harbour / port which is basically exclusively for "unaccompanied freight trailers". Basically, to Calais from Europe and from Calais to Europe, goods can be distributed in standard containers by train networks rather than by diesel powered trucks trundling across motorways. In England, the equivalent of Calais is Dover. Dover port is completely inaccessible by train and that will never change. Nearby Folkestone used to have a train line direct into the port, but that is long since abandoned and the rail bed is now a public footpath.

Sorry, but those facts are the truth.