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T.U.C. Call for Co-ordination
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COMPET1T1ON between coastwise • --,shipping and road transport was discussed by Mr. Douglas Tennant, of the Merchant Navy and Air Line Officers Association, when the Trades Union Congress at Douglas, Isle of Man, debated a co-ordinated transport system last week. A composite resolution endorsed by Congress called for a fully effective co-ordinated transport system in this country and opposed any attempt from whatever source to separate the existing regions or to pare off any of the divisions now under the control of the British Transport Commission. The resolution was moved by Mr. S. Greene, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen.
Supporting the resolution, Mr. Tennant recalled that under the 1947 Transport Act there was provision for a coastal advisory committee, on which seafarers' unions served. Had it not been for the 1953 Transport Act, many of the things suggested in the resolution would have been accomplished.
Wasteful Competition After 1953 a large proportion of the nationalized road haulage sector was sold to private operators, bringing the transport system back to wasteful competition of pre-war years, he claimed.
Coastwise shipping was necessarily a competitor of other transport media, but should be a complementary part of a co-ordinated transport system, From 1957 to 1960, the number of tramp coasters had dropped and many of those remaining were more than 15 or 20 years old: there was little likelihood of their being replaced.
Mr. Tennant. who forecast a further reduction of about 250,000 tons of coastwise shipping in the next few years, con tinued: As roads improve, long-distance road haulage is going to expand and much of this expansion will be in the hands of private operators not concerned with a balanced system but only with capturing cargoes. This is playing hell with the railways, and the railways in turn are playing bell with coastwise shipping."
An integrated transport system was needed so that coastwise shipping could take some of the congestion off the road. Multi-wheeled long-distance vehicles. which jammed up the roads, carried goods which could be put into coastwise shipping. The sea was a highway round the country which did not need repairing.