The Channel attracts a quarter of the world's maritime traffic.

Omissions

• The claim does not specify whether 'maritime traffic' refers to vessel movements, tonnage of goods, or value of trade — the Atlas Transmanche source explicitly refers to 'goods traffic,' which is a narrower metric.
• No primary official source (e.g. UNCTAD, IMO, Eurostat) was found to independently confirm the exact 25% figure; the primary supporting source is an academic research project from the Université de Caen.
• The MEP did not cite any source for this statistic, making independent verification more difficult.

Sources

• AcademicAtlas Transmanche (Université de Caen)The English Channel is one of the world's busiest maritime thoroughfare. More than a quarter part of goods traffic pass through this maritime corridor.
• SecondaryWorld Economic ForumThe English Channel is the busiest ocean shipping lane in the world. More than 500 vessels go through it every single day to get from the North Sea to the Atlantic and vice versa.