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Ferrying Renaults
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• Ferrymasters has won a contract with Renault Truck Industries to transport parts from Blainville, near Caen to its production plant in Dunstable.
UK Scanias?
• Scania plans to boost production by 50% and build a new European plant, possibly in the UK.
Parental support
• Truck cab specialist Motor Panels helped to boost the profits of CH Industrials, which bought it last September, by 64% to 215.34 million for the year to April. "
Dee up
NI John Dee Group has taken over Fleetlink in Derbyshire and P McKenna and Son (Transport) of Airdrie. The distribution company now plans to reach its £42 million turnover target two years ahead of schedule. Following the acquisitions, John Dee has formed two new subsidiaries; John Dee East Midlands and John Dee Scotland.
The acid test
• United Transport Tankers has won a £1.5 million, three-year contract to transport hydrochloric acid for ICI. Each year, 50,000 tonnes of the acid will be transported in eight rubberlined tankers from Clayton Commercials.
New line
• This summer's annual shutdown at Iveco Ford's Langley plant has been extended to four weeks to allow the installation of an assembly line for an, as yet unidentified, Iveco model backed by a £17.7 million investment.
Road profits
Ill Transport minister Peter Bottomley told MPs in the Commons last week: "Each pound spent on the roads brings a £2 return and we are getting a return of about £160 million per year from the present road programme in road casualty reductions alone."