Glasgow-Paris freight express starts on Monday
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• Scottish shipping agents and exporting firms have shown a keen interest in the new cargo service to be put in operation from next Monday by Tartan Arrow Services Ltd., the Glasgow-based freight transport operators. Skyways Coach Air Ltd. and Beauvais-Transit of Paris.
The fast freight service to operate between Glasgow and Paris is designed to help Scottish exporting firms to get their goods to the French market as quickly as possible. It will be known as Tartan-Air, a road, rail and air venture, tailored to meet the needs of Scottish exporters.
The charges are claimed to offer savings ranging from 24 per cent on general cargo under 45 kilos to 43 per cent on some goods over 500 kilos. Tartan Arrow's own train will take goods from Glasgow to London, where they will be conveyed by road in a Bedford parcels van to Lympne Airport in Kent. They will then be flown by DC3 airfreighter to Beauvais, and then carried by road to Paris.
The operators claim that the whole journey will take less than 48 hours. They say that the new service is a logical extension of the successful 24-hour road-and-rail freight service linking Scotland and South East England, already operated by Tartan Arrow.
Mr. John Cooper, Scottish director of Tartan Arrow, says that they plan to introduce similar services between Glasgow and Germany and Glasgow and Belgium within the next few months.