There is no risk to deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine, a minister is insisting, despite the EU threat to impose controls over a separate row with UK-based AstraZeneca.Nadhim Zahawi sought to play down growing fears of “vaccine nationalism” – saying he w…
Health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said the EU “will take any action required to protect its citizens and its rights” after the company cut its initial deliveries to the bloc by up to 60 per cent.The EU, which is expected to approve the Oxford/Astra…
It is said, it could take “a few days” to clear the backlog of HGV drivers who need a negative Covid test result to travel from Kent to France, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.
Rail, air and sea logistics between the UK and France re…
The French Government has banned all travel from the UK for 48 hours, including freight drivers.
The move comes after the Netherlands and Belgium made similar calls after the emergence of a mutant strain of Covid-19 in Britain.
The move will cause chao…
DAF Trucks has announced the introduction of its CF Electric truck for the UK market, with series production to commence from the end of March 2021. Following successful in-service trials with operators in Germany and the Netherlands, the new Battery E…
The current situation is far from easy for the many truck drivers who continue to pound the roads of Europe during the second COVID-19 wave. To cope with the multiple difficulties they face in their line of work, they are on the lookout for relevant, u…
A mechanic accused over the deaths of 39 migrants has told jurors he was roped into people-smuggling, and insisted: “I never wanted to be involved in this kind of job.”
Gheorghe Nica, 43, has admitted helping his former boss Ronan Hughes, 41, transport…
Across the whole of the EU and UK, the Covid death rate per 100,000 population is highest in the Czech Republic (25), followed by Belgium (19) and Hungary (10.4), the EU’s European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) reports. The figure for Portugal is 5.6.
The bodies of 39 migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex were so closely packed together the first policeman on the scene could not check them all for signs of life, a court has heard.
PC Jack Emerson told the Old Bailey how he and a colleague …
The Road Haulage Association and Logistics UK are among a group of 33 road haulage associations across Europe urging all parties to agree a deal on Brexit.
In an Open Letter to the EU Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier, UK Chief Negotiator David Frost and…
A court in Vietnam has jailed four people for their roles in the deaths of 39 migrants discovered in a container lorry in England.
he 31 men and eight women were found in the back of the HGV in Essex in October 2019.
A number of people have been arrest…
15 September 2020, 18:46 | Updated: 15 September 2020, 18:52
The bodies of 39 people were found in a lorry in Essex last year. Picture: PA Images
By Ewan Quayle
Four people in Vietnam have been jailed for their part in the deaths of 39 migrants who d…
Vietnam jails four people smugglers over the deaths of 39 of migrants who were found suffocated to death in the back of a lorry in Essex
Vietnam has jailed four people smugglers over the deaths of 39 migrants who were found suffo…
Vietnam has jailed four people in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants found in a refrigerated truck in Britain last year, state media reported.
The deaths of 31 Vietnamese men and eight women in a car near London in October 2019 highlighted the …
This picture taken on Sept 14, 2020 and released by the Vietnam News Agency shows defendants at a trial against those involved in organising for people to migrate abroad, in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants found in a refrigerated truck in Br…