Container Transport
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by David Lowe
1973 forecast IT IS forecast that 400,000 containers per year will be handled in the Port of Southampton by the end of 1973. Two major consortia are already using the port Dart Containerline Ito USA and Canada) and Atlantic Container Line (to USA) and the OCUACT consortium recently announced its intention to use the port for its Far East service. This is followed by news this week of a fourth operator to decide on Southampton for its UK terminal. Seatrain (UK), whose US parent company is Seatrain Lines Inc., will be the third trans-atlantic container operator to use the common user terminal at Southampton and its service to New York was inaugurated recently by the first sailing of the containership Transincliana
Mr. E. Howells, chief docks manager at Southampton, making the forecast said: "We have plenty of room for additional development and are still negotiating for even more business, so the actual total four weeks from now could be considerably greater.