CIE goes world-wide
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CORAS lompair Eireann, Ireland's semi-state transport company, has entered the international freight forwarding business with Navigator Freight Agency, a business integrated with its road and rail freight businesses.
Navigator is offering worldwide full container load services, groupage to Britain and Europe, heavy haulage and special project work, marine insurance, customs clearance and freight costing.
CIE already has customs clearance facilities at Dublin, Rosslare and Limerick and is aiming Navigator at exporters and importers in Ireland.
The company's road freight business has been operating under threat of closure since the McKinsey Report on the future of CIE was published in 1981. No action has yet been taken on implementing the recommendations of the report, which proposed the creation of three separate bus and train businesses, and there have been suggestions that road haulage might be preserved as a separate business.
• British Rail's Red Star parcel service has been extended to Ireland, by a joint deal with CIE.
The joint Red Star/Fastrack service offers 24-hour delivery of small parcels between Dublin and Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London, and routes parcels by rail throughout, via the StranraerLarne Sealink ferry.