The chaos at Calais has seen a ninth person die since June as more than a thousand migrants stormed the Channel Tunnel on Tuesday night, attempting to cross to England.
The man, described to the BBC as Sudanese and aged between 25 and 30, is believed to have been involved in a collision with a lorry.
Eurotunnel bosses said incursions now happen every night and advised freight services to consider alternative transport for Wednesday.
UK industry has been hit hard by the transport disruption with hauliers losing out more than £11m over the past five weeks and calling for the Government to find a ‘long-term solution’.
Operation Stack, the emergency measure of parking lorries on the M20 to tackle the traffic Backlog caused by port and tunnel closures, costs the haulage industry £750,000 a day and has been implemented by authorities 15 times since mid-June.
With more than £200bn of trade crossing the Dover Straits every year, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has also warned around £2m in food is being written off every month because of problems at the port – reaching £10m in total since the beginning of the year.
Donald Armour, manager of international affairs at the FTA, told The Times: ‘If there is a shortage of fresh fruit from Spain or Italy because of these problems, that could push prices up in shops. We’re really need a long-term solution or consumers will suffer.’
The Federation of Small Businesses has also demanded ministers act to stem the disruption to haulage, stating in a letter to government that it was ‘simply unacceptable’ that no alternative to Operation Stack had been found since the stop gap was first introduced in 1988.
Following a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee, home secretary Theresa May pledged to spend £7m on 1.2 miles of fencing for the area.
'Crucially what we are looking at now is improving security at the railhead at Coquelles, so we can ensure people are not trying to come through the tunnel,' she said.
'That means some urgent work in government but also with Eurotunnel, and Eurotunnel has a role to play here in the measures they themselves put in place to protect their trains.'
