Crisis In Calais Costs Local Businesses
One haulage company in East Yorkshire has told us the situation in Calais is a big cost to his business .
We've been finding out how the ongoing migrant crisis in Calias is affecting businesses here.
East Yorkshire haulage company, Eurovision Logistics, say they're completely avoiding the area and are having to use alternative and more expensive transport routes in order to continue operations.
Managing Director, Dominic Yeardley, says the situation is incredibly frustrating and is significantly costing his business. He told Viking FM:
"We're avoiding Dover-Calais completely at the minute, we don't want the vehicles stuck, we don't want the drivers risking getting attacked by immigrants so we are avoiding both risk and cost by avoiding Dover-Calais.
"There is the additional cost of additional mileage by using different routes and additional sea freight crossings. It is a significant cost to us and it's a very marginal industry that we are in and therefore even a small increase in cost does affect our profit.
"A lot of our inport customers are in the Midlands and therefore normally we would bring them back through Calais-Dover because it is the shortest and cheapest sea crossing but at the minute we are even bringing them up to the North of England on the Hull ferry just to avoid the problems there.
"You do have sympathy with the migrants but then of course you see the affect on your business and you can only have limited sympathy because it's not really our issue that these guys are trying to get over and it's not our issue that the French government is taking so long to try and do something about it.
"I can't see the situation being resolved any time quickly because the sheer number of thousands of lorries that are down there, even if something happened today, it would take days to clear it properly and as we know every night at the moment these guys are trying to break in."
It's as David Cameron is warning the migrant crisis in Calais could last all summer.
The Prime Minister has confirmed he is sending extra fencing and sniffer dogs - describing the situation as 'not acceptable.'