A new cross-Channel freight service is launched by Eurotunnel this weekend.

The service will see freight transported, unaccompanied, through the Channel Tunnel, with 8,300 trailers a year expected to use the service.

Operating 24-hours-a-day, six days a week, the service will use the Eurotunnel Border Pass which will allow transporters to digitise their "administrative exchanges with the border authorities".

The rail service is also being trumpeted as greener than its rivals - emitting 40 times less CO2 then ferries.

Christian Dufermont, freight commercial director of Eurotunnel, said: "By offering a new low-carbon, reliable and ultra-secure service, we are responding to a changing demand, and we confirm our determination to be the preferred means of passage for the most demanding logistics chains."

It goes live on Saturday, September 18.

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