“We too are human, scared by the unknowns of the pandemic. Our overseas truckers and local drivers cover long miles in solitude, not knowing how safe this job still is. Perhaps for the rest of the population, until life’s essentials are delivered, no one questions who, how and at what sacrifice they were delivered. From our end, we keep reassuring clients that their cargo is being handled as safely as ever, and that our drivers and heroes on the road are doing a fantastic job. Express Trailers remains committed to minimise as much as possible the disruption and unnecessary pressures for most businesses and everyone’s operations.”

This was stated by Franco Azzopardi, Chairman and CEO of Express Trailers in a reaction to a recent communication sent to all its business clients to assure them that European borders have remained open for cargo and that the main port of Genoa, which is Malta’s gateway lifeline, is still operational even if sailings are feeling the strains and pains now too.

Ever since the outbreak of Covid-19, Express Trailers recognised that it was going to start operating in very special and unprecedented circumstances but that as a company, its role in ensuring that the Maltese keep finding their life’s essentials on the shelves, would never be as vital as now.

“Logistics is a critical conduit of essentials especially when it comes to the transport of food, medical and pharmaceutical products into and out of Malta. This is why we kept all our European operations for import and export ongoing, assisting all our clients to remain productive and maintain supply of goods to the market by optimising our routes to remain a company that is built-to-serve,” said Azzopardi.

“To ensure this continuity we put measures in place to safeguard everyone in contact with cargo, including our drivers and employees, and this to keep, as much as possible our supply chain routes working with the same efficient on-time solutions as clients expect. The quality of our pharma and food temperature-controlled services has always been top-notch and the current situation requires us, more than ever, to ascertain that the standards we have reached today, remain such. We will keep doing our utmost for these essential services to remain available throughout the current crisis,” he added.

Azzopardi also paid tribute to all Express Trailers’ drivers, both those working on the local front as well as those across its European network.

“They are our ambassadors and heroes who are braving the road hazards, the fear of contamination, looting, seclusion away from family to bring much needed essential food and medical equipment and pharma for people. They, alongside all the other front liners in our country, are doing an amazing job.”