Once inside their enclosure, the pandas were driven by lorry to Chengdu airport where they were inspected by wildlife authorities.
From eastern Europe, by contrast, it is just four to six weeks, including a day or two for delivery by lorry.
It was stored on shore for another two days before being transported by lorry to the IDA Enterprise Park on the outskirts of Wexford.
"This is something which affects everyone's budgets and is driving up the cost of everything because everything in this country is shifted around by lorry, " he said.
Recent industrial action by lorry drivers meant petrol stations ran dry, supermarkets ran low on stock, and even hospitals had to make alternative arrangements for deliveries of heating coal.
Drax claims that because shipping is so efficient, it creates less CO2 bringing a boat-load of wood from America - even the West Coast - than it does ferrying the equivalent wood by lorry from forests in Scotland.
This right has been exercised, usually with impunity, by French lorry-drivers four times since 1984, and frequently too by farmers, merchant seamen, students and anyone else with a deeply felt grievance.
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Edward Slaney, 35, was crushed by a lorry that was blown over near Bridgewater Place in March 2011.
An investigation into the death of a man killed by a lorry in Bristol is to be re-opened.
Priyanka Bhogal, from Coventry, died in hospital after the car she was in was hit by a lorry in November 2011.
However, in 1982 his career was cut short by a crash, when his car was hit by a lorry near Peterborough.
Mr Thompson suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by the lorry at a pedestrian crossing and died five days later.
Questions have been asked about the safety of Leeds' tallest building after the death of man who was crushed by a lorry which blew over in strong winds.
Work will continue through the night to make safe the site of a house struck by a lorry in an accident that led to the death of a 55-year-old woman.
And, according to figures collated by the Times - which has run a high-profile cycle safety campaign since one of its reporters was hit by a lorry and left in a coma - 104 cyclists have been killed so far this year.
On inquiry, it emerged the money came from bribes routinely paid by bus and lorry drivers.
Now it was deployed to getting a law degree, studying at night and driving a lorry by day.
His ambulance was hit by a Polish lorry driver who was driving on the wrong side of the road.
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But Poland has only about 500km of motorways, and most big cities are still linked by perilous, lorry-choked two-lane roads.
This move was also spurred, according to Mr Phillips, by a shortage of lorry drivers.
And again, it seems that the intention was to make the security guards believe that they were merely in the midst of a traffic problem caused by the burning the lorry.
Kosevo hospital was inundated with victims carried by ambulance, car and lorry, some of them wrapped in the canvas used on the market stalls.
The Belgian lorry driver was interviewed by French police and released without charge.
Jack Boyton, 17, from Enfield, was driving his Vauxhall Corsa north on the A10 near Hoddesdon when he hit the lorry in a lay-by on 9 November.
Lorry driver Nigel Bennett told Hatfield Coroner's Court he was having a break in his lorry in the lay-by at 02:15 GMT when there was "a massive bang".
Lorry Watch was set up by residents who were fed up of vehicles exceeding the weight limit on the bridge which takes the A363 over the River Avon.
Six sheep fell in the water while being taken off the lorry, and four were rescued by RSPCA officers, but two drowned.
On January 24th a striking lorry driver was run over and killed by a German trucker, who was detained by police.
"Increasingly it's just a paper event - the lorry never goes abroad, so the actual product never leaves the UK. The lorry just stops on a lay-by somewhere and gets turned around, " says Keith Webb, acting managing director of Bargain Booze.
Priyanka Bhogal, from Coventry, died in hospital from a head injury after the car she was in was hit by 64-year-old Robert Booth's lorry in November 2011.
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