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Silver Roadways joins big container set-up

11th August 1967, Page 20
11th August 1967
Page 20
Page 20, 11th August 1967 — Silver Roadways joins big container set-up
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SILVER Roadways Ltd., haulage subsidiary of Tate and Lyle Ltd., world's largest sugar-refining company, has been accepted as the third partner of Unit Loads Ltd., the container operator of Felixstowe and Rotterdam.

Pakhuismeesteren NV of Rotterdam, stevedores, warehousemen transport operators and ships' agents, and James Fisher and Sons Ltd., shipowners and ships' agents, are the other partners.

The integration of the Silver Roadways countrywide depot network and haulage organization in the UK will mean that Unit Loads will directly control all the land and sea transport for their containers. The aim of the new company, which comes into effect on November 1, is to provide tightly controlled and speedy container operation between Germany, Holland, the UK and Ireland.

Shipping to and from the Continent will be between any desired ports.