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• Overnight parcels delivery firm Elan has upgraded its service into Paris and Northern France with daily deliveries now promised for noon (French time), three hours earlier than previously. Elan is also opening a new depot at Uddington, near Glasgow.
• Sealink is to charter the car ferry Vortigern to Townsend Thoresen to operate on the company's Dover-Boulogne route.
• The Leeds/Bradford freight forwarding community has made a formal application to HM Customs for the introduction of Direct Trader input (DIU later this year.
• Eight hundred companies are participating in a survey of salaries and benefits in the UK motor trade. The survey, to be published in the summer, will focus on 30 benchmark jobs from car and truck salesmen to managing directors of franchised dealers and will examine the disparities in salaries in the retail motor trade.
• City Wheels Transport System, specialists in electric vehicles for road and closed site use, has appointed an agent in Italy. Pietro Gelmini will be advising transport authorities on the infrastructure and computer networking required for implementation of the system.