British steel fencing
manufacturer Zaun is celebrating a first order to Gibraltar – to surround a new
play park for military families.
Zaun supplied 350m of
its Bow Top railings and five single gates – totalling about six tonnes – for
the Four Corners play park, commissioned by the Government of Gibraltar and
built by the Gibraltar Joinery &
Building Services for the MoD base on the peninsula.
The order was placed by Colomendy Ltd, a UK
company with more than 90 years’ experience in export procurement worldwide and
keeping supply chains moving.
The British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar is a rocky
headland on the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, a strategic location
at the western entrance to the Mediterranean, where the straits between Europe
and Africa are only 14km wide.
Gibraltar covers just over two square miles including
the Rock of Gibraltar, at the foot of which is a densely populated city area of
30,000 residents.
The British Army has had a presence in Gibraltar for
more than 300 years. The people of Gibraltar took up arms as the Gibraltar
Volunteer Corps from 1915-1920 and again as the Gibraltar Defence Force shortly
before the outbreak of World War II. This force later became the Royal
Gibraltar Regiment, which remains as the only formed Army unit in Gibraltar.
In 1991 the last UK-based infantry battalion left
Gibraltar, which is now used primarily by the British as a training area and a
stopover for aircraft and ships en route to and from deployments East of Suez
or Africa.
