Express Trailers continued its annual trend of combining entertainment with history and cultural appreciation when last week it hosted its annual employee summer social event at the Saluting Battery at Upper Barakka Gardens. Employees and their families also had the opportunity to enjoy a guided tour of the underground vaults beneath Barrakka Gardens and the Lascaris War Rooms, all managed by Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna.

Express Trailers started this trend a few years ago when it had the opportunity to support Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna with the transportation of a number of cannons from the UK to Malta.

“This relationship with Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna made us realise that we could go beyond providing logistics support and that we could also be contributing to FWA’s cause of promoting and instilling greater appreciation towards Malta’s historic legacy amongst our own employees. In fact, we started hosting our annual summer and Christmas social gatherings at historic venues which always include a historic tour of the site,” explains Franco Azzopardi, Chairman and CEO of Express Trailers.

Past social events hosted by Express Trailers were held at venues such as Fort Rinella, Bighi Naval Hospital, Fort St Angelo and Zabbar Gate in Vittoriosa amongst others. Last year, the company also participated in a national clean up event and was assigned the St Thomas Tower in Marsascala.

“We also appreciate that military sites had a logistics role to play in the success of warfare and military campaigns. Indeed, the best logistics set ups, often determined battles and wars. As a transport and logistics company, our association with military and historic sites is becoming a natural association for us and indirectly, an opportunity to support the very important work conducted by NGO’s such as Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna,” added Franco Azzopardi.