We have now entered the Summer holiday period which unfortunately means service disruption due to HGV driving bans and closures in Italy & France. We shall endeavour to maintain agreed transit times wherever possible however some delays are inevitable.
 
Driving bans
 
From w/c 25th June 2018 to w/c 20th August 2018 there are HGV driving bans in Italy during each Saturday (usually they are limited to Sunday), with additional driving bans on Friday 27th July and Friday 3rd August. In France there are also driving bans each Saturday, from 14th July to 18th August inclusive.
 
Italian service interruption

Last scheduled Italian groupage departures before holidays:
UK to IT                Friday 3rd August
IT to UK                Friday 3rd August (cargo must be available Thursday 2nd)

First scheduled Italian groupage departures after holidays:
UK to IT                Friday 17th August
IT to UK                Friday 24th August
 
Viamaster will continue to operate services to/from Italy throughout August however at a reduced capacity and with possible extended transit times.
 
During this holiday period the availability of equipment will be severely reduced due to the imbalance of export & import cargo and the limited amount of overseas equipment in the market, also the Italian domestic transport providers have limited capabilities throughout the majority of August with national services suspended for a number of weeks. As in previous years, additional freight costs for high volume shipments & full load traffic may be incurred.
 
If you have any particular concerns then please direct your enquiries to your usual operational contact.
 

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