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Dublin, Ireland: Krone had five trailers on display at the annual Fleet Transport Awards in Ireland. The line-up comprised a double-deck Cool Liner; a steel-sided Dry Liner; an insulated Dry Liner; a command-steer City Liner and a dual-temperature Cool Liner. The double-deck Cool Liner is for Noon Transport and is specified with Krone telematics including …

Skelmersdale, Lancashire, UK: NRG Fleet Services’ truck rental business, Riverside Truck Rental, has specified Carrier Transicold equipment for all 18 of its new trucks. Riverside’s refrigerated fleet consists of three 7.5-tonne and three 13-tonne Isuzu rigids fitted with Carrier Transicold Xarios 600 units on Gray & Adams bodies, and six 18-tonne Daf LFs and six …

London, UK: Ceva Logistics has officially opened its new end-to-end cold chain operation, called the “Chill Hub”, at DP World’s London Gateway. Within the multi-temperature 10,000sq metre space are up to 10,000 pallet positions, featuring seven independent chambers capable of operating at all temperature ranges from -25°C through to +16°C. This means chilled, frozen and …

Tunbridge Wells, UK: The Freight Transport Association has published its latest Logistics Skills Report 2019 that reveals that the sector is facing serious labour shortages over the next five to 10 years. HGV drivers are “becomingly increasingly hard to recruit” as older drivers retire and problems persist in recruiting younger people. Not enough young people …

Dover, UK: The Department for Transport is urging hauliers to check they have the right documents before travelling on 31 October as it reveals Operation Brock plans to try to keep the M20 open in both directions in the event of disruption to services across the English Channel. The DfT has launched a targeted information …