London-Malta weekly service launched
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• Mr. J. F. Axisa, the High Commissioner for Malta, last week launched the first London/ Malta door-to-door weekly surface service to be operated by Malta-Crass Continent Container's Ltd.
Mr. M. S. Roe, managing director of MaltaCross, whose London office is at Syndicate House, 124 Fenchurch Street, EC3, claims that the service is comparable to the present air freight services. The total journey time is four to five days and it charges £15 10s per cubic ton. The service is already operating to near-capacity, carrying such items as plastics, chemicals and twill, all items that once went by air.
A 49ft. 38-ton g.v,w. Volvo FB88 and semitrailer will leave London each Thursday and travel via the Thoressen Ferry at Southampton, cross France, pass through the Mont Blanc tunnel to Italy and then travel to Naples where, making use of the roll-on/off ferry service the trailers and containers make the 30-hour sea journey to Malta.
The Maltese Government, seeing this service as a valuable aid to exports. has granted Malta-Cross permission to use what will be the largest-ever units to operate in the island.