This transport system enables both people and goods to travel between France and the UK on high-speed trains in the small matter of 30 minutes.
The French Terminal occupies almost a third of the Coquelles commune’s surface area.
Construction work took on titanic proportions. One of the most impressive characteristics was the 11 million cubic metres of earth displaced, seven times the volume of the Great pyramid of Giza itself, the largest in Egypt. The engineering structures alone total almost 60 000 square metres of bridges and 5 km of platforms.
