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to make further progress for the benefit of shareholders and all other stakeholders including the pension scheme, our customers and all colleagues in the business. We look forward to the future with confidence.” Commanding a fleet of more than 700 tankers for the transport of bulk liquids and gases, the Chippenham-headquartered company recently unveiled EnergyLink, which it describes as “a UK-wide network to support greater flexibility in delivery services” for the country’s energy sector. “Te services for the fuels, bitumen and oils markets will be available through a flexible contracting model, underpinned by the safety and service credentials established by Wincanton in these markets for more than five decades,” the company states, adding that “the launch of EnergyLink will be accompanied by a £5m investment in new assets to provide greater capacity in its growing bulk tanker division in the energy sector”. www.wincanton.co.uk


HOLIDAY POSTCARD


Thanks to Alec Keeler, managing director of Loadtec Engineering, who spotted this operation during his summer holidays on Isola de Giglio, a small island off the west coast of Italy. (Nice work if you can get it…) Of course, all isolated communities need fuel supplies but the tanker used to deliver to the island fits extremely snugly into the ferry, which plies the short hop across the Tyrrhenian Sea to Porto Santo Stefano, near Orbetello. Given that the population of the island is only around 1,500 people, a tanker-load of fuel must last some time.


Apparently the island’s population has fallen lately. Readers may be thinking, “Where do I know that name from?” The answer: it was off Isola del Giglio that the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground in January 2012. It has been


reported that a number of young women from the island were tempted away by men they met among the 2,000 salvage workers sent to deal with the wreck.


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