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Boulogne-Folkestone ferry Falcon Seafreight earlier this week after its engines failed in a gale. The ferry arrived safely at Folkestone with the trucks.
FASTER MY PLO European Ferries has ordered a 21,000-tonne freight/passenger ferry to enter service in June 2000.1t will Out the Larne/Gairnryan journey to 105 minutes.
GERMAN AGRUISMON
PLO Trans European has bought Mohlmann Spedition of Bremen-Stuhr for an undisclosed sum. The German firm employs 60 people.
MAD NIP
An artic driven for Newport, Gwent-based Solutia UK collided with a car on the M5 in Worcestershire last week, spilling acid on the road and causing a 15-mile tailback.
MUNE MANZ* The Government plans to increase the amount of freight, particularly waste, transported on canals.
LNICS LINK Lincolnshire-based Fowler Welch is teaming up with Wakeley Brothers Distribution to set up a base at the Sheerness Produce Terminal's site at Spade Lane.
POLIFE REQUEST:1 Cheshire police want to trace the driver of a silver tanker who stopped to help a Fiat Brava driver who died in a crash on the A550 at Shotwick on 15 January. Contact 0151 355 4066.
POLICE REQUEST:2 Motorway police at Charnock Richard need witnesses to a fatal crash near M6/J33 at 04:00hrs on Sunday 21February. Christine Murdock, 31, died after her artic went down a 50ft bank. Contact: 01257 791427.