* England - Firms dig in for the long haul as they count cost of migrant crisis
-- Intimidation, threats of violence, spoilt goods and missed deliveries resulting in spiralling costs – all things Yorkshire drivers and haulage firms are having to deal with on an almost daily basis owing to the migrant crisis in Calais... Nidd Transport, which is based near Ripon, North Yorkshire, sends four or five trucks a night through the Eurotunnel... Its drivers have suffered intimidation by migrants in Calais and have had goods ruined by stowaways who manage to make their way into the back of lorries, and it has had to absorb significant costs of re-routing loads through northern ports to ensure customers’ needs are filled. Commercial director Steve Curtis said: “This has been going on since May" ... Over recent weeks, thousands of migrants have to attempted to get to the Channel Tunnel, and an estimated 5,000 migrants from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea are believed to be camped in and around the port... The delays put on haulage firms bringing in freight from continental Europe have a knock-on effect on other Yorkshire firms...
(Image: An estimated 5,000 migrants from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea camped iaround the port, to get to the Channel Tunnel) -- Calais, France / Yorkshire, EN, UK - The Yorkshire Post - 15 August 2015
* Austria-Hungary border - Dozens of decomposing refugee bodies found in truck
-- Dozens of dead refugees have been found in the back of a lorry in Austria, in another incident in a spate tragedies involving desperate migrants embarking on the perilous journey to Europe in search of a better life... The vehicle, belonging to a food company, was parked on the hard shoulder of a highway near the eastern town of Parndorf, not far from the border with Hungary and Slovakia... The truck, with Hungarian license plates, was spotted by staff at a nearby service station who became suspicious when it had not moved for a long time, Krone newspaper reported. Police were called to the scene and made the grim discovery... Authorities said that according to an early assessment the lorry had become a 'grave' for between 20 and 50 people, believed to have died of asphyxiation... A police official told broadcaster ORF the refugees had been dead for some time, as some corpses appeared to be partially decomposed...
(Photo by DIETER NAGL/AFP/Getty Images - Forensic officers stand in front of truck believed to contain large number of dead migrants on a motorway in Austria) -- Parndorf, Hungary -
IBT, by Umberto Bacchi - August 27, 2015Labels: truckers complaints, trucking troubles worldwide
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