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maltatoday, SUNDAY 15 APRIL 2018 VI Motoring e Orange eet keeps growing bigger and stronger GROWTH in the population brings about an increase in consumption and hence importation. Sustained consumer demand as well as an increase in the demand for the importation and transportation of heavy machinery and equipment has therefore led Express Trailers to invest in further vehicles for its growing fleet. The company has just added to its fleet four new DAF tractor units for its domestic operations, one DAF curtain-sided truck which will be deployed at Express Trailers' Bonds section in Ħal Far, two temperature- controlled box vans to be deployed by the do- mestic operations team and a new low loader to be used by both domestic and interna- tional operations. Besides transporting special machinery and construction equipment, this low loader can also transport heavy plant for regular operations. Franco Azzopardi, Chairman and CEO of Express Trailers said that when it comes to its fleet of vehicles and trailers, Express Trailers was never a company to shy away from invest- ment. "Since its earliest days, Express Trailers' lead- ing edge was always based on having the right means with which to operate and a high pro- pensity to invest in its business enablers, peo- ple, equipment and space. Its fleet was always at the forefront of any long-term investment and whenever the company looked at growth, this was always in terms of fleet resources," he said. "We believe that an upgraded and diver- sified fleet enables better and more efficient logistics operations that satisfy clients' increas- ing demands. As long as we keep investing in new transportation vehicles in tandem with the best drivers, we will keep operating in the safest and most reliable manner."