The environmentally-friendly way to travel to France

In terms of your carbon footprint, travelling with Eurotunnel is better than going by ferry as it emits 73x less carbon dioxide. CO2 contributes to your carbon footprint, so this is an important factor to reducing its size.

To give you a clear example, if you were to travel by car on the ferry, it would produce 147kg CO2e. If you drive your car onto one of our shuttles and travel to France, it’s only 2kg CO2e, a big difference. 

Support for electric vehicles (EVs)

Travelling by EV is even kinder on the environment, so we want to support our customers doing so as much as we can. We have EV chargers on site for customer use. All completely free to use, our chargers support Tesla as well as most other models (check electric vehicle charging availability).

Just like a car carrying passengers, Eurotunnel shuttles also help other modes of transport carry freight across the channel. However, we are constantly striving to improve our environmental performance and produce less carbon and other harmful emissions.

10% drop in CO2e emissions

A truck using Eurotunnel will emit 12x less CO2e than if it completed its journey on a ferry. Using a 1090 km journey as an example this represents a 10% drop in CO2e emissions.

Freight customers can easily calculate the savings madeo on a journey when travelling with a Eurotunnel shuttle compared with a ferry using the online carbon counter.

As well as a truck crossing the Channel with Eurotunnel emitting 12 times less CO2 than with the ferries, a 25 km journey from Folkestone to Dover saves a further 20 kg of carbon emissions each way.

Eurotunnel has, for the 15th time, been awarded the highly prestigious Green Flag Award® for the 30-hectare Samphire Hoe nature reserve at the foot of the beautiful White Cliffs of Dover. Visit the Samphire Hoe website to find out more.

Since 2018 every electric KWH used by Getlink in the UK is carbon neutral, but what does that mean? It means our electricity consumption emits 0 tonne of carbon, meaning every single KWH is offset to achieve carbon neutrality.

An impressive 2 million tonnes CO2e are avoided each year because we actively reduce the number of our trucks out on the road using our subsidiary Europorte rail freight. That’s the equivalent of around 200 000 people’s annual CO2e emissions.