Today the EonA/AWF team worked with the border police and official veterinarians to check on livestock trucks both passing through the border between Hungary and Romania and at the two control posts in the area. We were pleased to find conditions all OK and within the legal norms today. A truck from the Hungarian company Bozso Lazlo, transporting pregnant heifers from … [Read more...] about Inspection of livestock trucks near Hungarian/Romanian border
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Meeting with Hunland, Hungary
Hunland is a large animal transport and export company. Their main office is in Hungary where they also have a huge farm. Here cattle (Hungarian and from abroad) are fattened and many are then exported to countries like Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Israel etc... The purpose of our meeting was to exchange ideas and info about current trade routes. We showed them what … [Read more...] about Meeting with Hunland, Hungary
Inspection border Kapikule, Turkey
Today our AWF/EonA team checks on two trucks of the company Hefter with pregnant heifers from Germany on board that cross the Turkish border at Kapikule. At the feeding station near the border, the animals are watered and fed with hay, which has been carried along from Germany, but they are not unloaded. In both trucks the bedding is very filthy and wet. The drivers claim … [Read more...] about Inspection border Kapikule, Turkey
Inspection border Kapikule, Turkey
The two trucks of the companies Interexpres and Verbert with cattle from Austria, which have arrived at the border the previous day at 4 o’clock in the morning, still have to wait the whole day for the authorization to drive on. The problem is that the buyer of the animals has not yet paid the import duty. Only when the amount has been transferred, the customs officials … [Read more...] about Inspection border Kapikule, Turkey
Inspection border Kapikule, Turkey
Today seven animal transports with breeding cattle from Austria and the Czech Republic pass the Turkish border at Kapikule. Our AWF/EonA team documents the transport conditions and the waiting times at the border. In five of the vehicles there is enough bedding although it is mostly quite dirty. Many pregnant heifers have lied down and are resting. In the two trucks of the … [Read more...] about Inspection border Kapikule, Turkey