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It’s amazing it’s more economical to ship(?) an assembled van across Europe than to assemble in the destination country.
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I think they transport them by helicopter. It's quicker.
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Yep, there are specialised ships
moving millions of vehicles across the oceans every year.
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mespilus
Transits were originally manufactured in the ex-Spitfire works in Langley that beacme a light truck plant that Ford offloaded to Iveco. It is now a warehousing industrial estate including a large Royal Mail Depot.
Transit production was moved to Eastleigh, giving a boost to Southampton airport as Ford Execs and Engineers jetted around Europe.
Ford Europe then began production of the Transit Connect in Turkey,
(doing away with Escort-derived vans), and famously used EIB funds to transfer full-size Transit production to the same plant.
Ford UK stopped vehicle production in Dagenham in early 2002, but retained (diesel) engine production thanks to a £400M grant (partly from the EU) for introducing less energy intense manufacturing methods.
Bridgend could be read as 'no more EU grants = no more manufacturing'.