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• The Road Haulage Association has changed the venue of its 1988 annual conference from Majorca to Lisbon, Portugal because "the risk of inclement weather was too high". The new plan is to gather at the Estorl-sol Hotel in the Portuguese capital from 8-16 October 1988.
• Road Haulage Association national chairman Glyn Samuel has become chairman of RHA Insurance Services to succeed Ted Haines, who has been chairman of the members' brokerage service since it was founded in January 1983 and is retiring. Samuel now heads the haulage industry's single biggest brokerage, placing premiums worth more than £12 million a year.
Mi November was another record month for the port of Ramsgate in Kent with more than 9,000 freight vehicles passing through it — a 24% increase over November 1986. Freight traffic for the first 11 months of last year totalled more than 88,000 vehicles — a 24% increase over 1986. Sally Line remains the port's main operator.
IN Construction work on the M62 and M63 motorways west of Manchester will create severe traffic delays warns the Department of Transport. A new phase of traffic restrictions has started on the M63 with preparatory work for widening the motorway between Junctions 3 and 6, south of Barton High Level bridge. The motorway has been reduced to a single lane southbound between Junction 2 (A57 Peel Green) and the new Junction 6 (A6144(M) to Carrington). Since Monday 4 January the northbound carriageway between Junctions 6 and 3 has also been reduced to a single carriageway.