Debt-laden Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel's new management has put pricing and cost cutting at the forefront of its strategy to rescue the company.

Three months after the all-French management team was installed, Eurotunnel says that its recovery is becoming possible.

It will provide a further update in October as it attempts to tackle a £6.4bn debt mountain and work out how to renegotiate a deal guaranteeing minimum revenues from customers that ends in 2006.

Eurotunnel also operates truck and passenger services between Folkestone and Calais, and earns revenues from rail freight services