Shell sets 2% rise Container haulage up for grabs
Page 11
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
• Tankfreight has offered 45 drivers working on its Shell Bitumen contract a 2% pay rise for 12 months from july 1993.
The NFC subsidiary also proposes to increase drivers' pay in line with inflation for between July of this year and next. If the drivers agree to link their 19941995 pay increase to the Retail Price Index (RPI), they will have a guarantee that it will not fall below 2%.
The Transport & General Workers Union is to ballot the drivers at Ellesmere Port, Dundee and Bridgwater with no recommendation on whether to accept the 1993/1994 offer.
• Container haulage will be available if a new bid for British Rail's Freightliner business from BR management is successful. Freightliner, part of BR's RailFreight Distribution carries more than 500,000 containers a year between ports and inland terminals by road and rail. The bid led by the management team, headed by RfD finance director David Rutherford, is competing with a joint venture between Russell Davies and P&O and a ports consortium called Interconnect Rail.
Freightliner owns 300 trucks and 800 trailers carrying containers between railheads and customer depots. The BR management team will be hoping to subcontract out more of the road haulage side of the lousiness. 'We will he looking at whatever combination of our own fleet and private firms that proves most profitable," says a spokesman.