COOL DISPATCH Citroen has launched a new Dispatch-based Klege Euro
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temperature-controlled vehicle. Based on a Dispatch 2.010 HDi platform-cab, the new insulated box body is designed to meet growing demand for supermarket home deliveries and other temperature-controlled operations.
DEADLY DOG-END A smouldering cigarette caused the fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel which killed 39 people last year, according to a report in Le Parisien newspaper. It claims that the cigarette end was thrown from a vehicle into the air intake of a Volvo truck where it set fire to the air filter arid then the engine.
CHINA TRADE Exel has launched a logistics company in Shanghai, China to target the retail, automotive, chemical, consumer and electronics sectors.
GREEN LAE The EC has given the green light to the proposed Ocean Group/Exel merger; following the merger Ocean will change its name to Exel.
MEWL DEAL Securicor Fuelserv is opening a fuel site in Calais this month in a bid to give UK-based international transport firms access to cheaper French diesel.
DIFFERENT GILDER Livestock haulier Edward Gilder. based in Bourton-onthe-Water, Gloucestershire has no link with the Cheltenhambased Edward Graham Gilder, known as Graham Gilder, who was warned he would lose his licence after being fined for ferrying ostriches in poor conditions (GM4-10 May).