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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Graeme Wearden

UK factories hit by Red Sea crisis, but recession could be avoided – as it happened

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The Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk, the UK's busiest container port.
The Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk, the UK's busiest container port. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

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In other travel news…. Eurostar traffic has returned to pre-Covid levels with a 22% rise in passenger numbers in 2023.

The cross-Channel train operator has announced that booming demand from London drove growth of 25% for journeys to Paris and more than a third on Eurostar routes to Brussels and Amsterdam, as total passenger numbers reached 18.9 million.

Eurostar also said it had found a partial solution to allow it to maintain a limited service to the Netherlands during work at Amsterdam station, which had threatened to halt the popular route in 2024.

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