The Port of Dover has congratulated P&O Ferries after the company revealed the number of passengers crossing the English Channel on its services in August was the highest for any month since 2003.
P&O carried 1,177,053 people between Dover and Calais during that time - a 2.5 per cent increase on the previous year, and the highest monthly figure since 2003.
P&O Ferries operates 58 sailings a day between Dover and Calais.