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Chaos erupted in the port town yesterday after striking ferry workers blocked access to the tunnel with burning tyres.

This followed the chaotic scenes of Tuesday, when France's striking ferry workers managed to break into the Channel tunnel, forcing its closure.

The Port of Dover, which faced heavy disruption all week due to striking ferry workers in France, said it remained open for business.

A dispute with workers at the MyFerryLink business, which Eurotunnel was forced to sell by competition regulators, also disrupted services on the rail link over the summer as striking ferry workers blockaded Calais with burning tyres.

Teddy and his friend were among hundreds of migrants, many of whom have fled war and persecution in the Middle East and east Africa, who tried to take advantage of 24 hours of chaos in Calais caused by striking ferry workers.

Nightly incursions by migrants and blockades by striking ferry staff in northern France have led to UK haulage firms incurring huge losses.

It should be noted that much of the disruption this month has been caused by striking French ferry workers, not migrants.

But the Calais crisis has deepened this summer because of the growing number of arrivals elsewhere and because striking French ferry workers have separately caused travel chaos.

Insist on a room on the 10th floor or higher for the most striking views of the active harbor, dotted with ferries, cruise ships, small boats and cranes.

Our ferry back to the mainland passed the striking red-brick walls and gilded towers of Upenski Cathedral, which guards the entrance to Katajanokka island.

Its most striking feature is to delegate the humdrum task of ferrying people and equipment to low-Earth orbit to the private sector.