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The number of Channel crossings is 32% lower than the total recorded at the same point of time last year, but 49% higher than the total at this stage in 2022. [ 57 ] For the first quarter of 2024, the most common nationality of people arriving from small boats was from Vietnam, with the 1,266 Vietnamese arrivals making up 20% of arrivals so far.
The English Channel connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Southern part of the North Sea and is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world with ships going in numerous direction: some are passing through in transit from the Southwest to Northeast (or vice versa) and others serving the many ports around the English Channel, including ferries crossing the Channel.
This is 25% higher than the 29,437 people who arrived in 2023, but 20% lower than the 45,774 arrivals in 2022, which was the highest for a calendar year since data on Channel crossings began in 2018.
Migrants detected crossing the English Channel in small boats – time series Irregular migration to the UK, year ending December 2022 – GOV.UK ( archived ) Irregular migration to the UK, year ...
The Channel Swimming Association (CSA) was founded to authenticate and ratify swimmers' claims to have swum the Channel and to verify crossing times. The CSA was dissolved in 1999 and was succeeded by two separate organisations: CSA Ltd (CSA) and the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CSPF), both observe and authenticate cross-Channel ...
The 30,000 crossings recorded in preliminary figures made up 36% fewer than the more than 45,000 in 2022. But the number was the second-highest since 2018 — about 1,000 above the total in 2021.
Operation Isotrope was a British military operation to assist the Border Force and other civil authorities in responding to the English Channel migrant crossings which began in 2018. The operation was first announced in January 2022 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid an upsurge in migrant crossings. [ 1 ]
Sudanese migrants in Calais Jungle, June 2015. Migrants have gathered in and around Calais, on the northern French coast, since at least the late 1990s [1] seeking to enter the United Kingdom from the French port by crossing the Channel Tunnel [2] or stowing away in the cargo area of lorries heading for ferries that cross the English Channel. [3]