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British speakers for Baltimore symposium
SEVERAL prominent British speakers will attend a series of four symposia to be held at the Second International Container Services and Equipment Exhibition at Baltimore commencing October 28.
The first day's programme will be chaired by Mr. James W. Gulick and will cover "Port and labour aspects of containerization". Mr. Dudley Perkins director-general of the Port of London Authority, will speak on the planning construction and operation of the PLA's container dock at Tilbury. He will be backed up by Mr. Donald A. Stringer, deputy managing director. British Transport Docks Board, dealing with the problems of containerization on British docks.
To round off the first British contribution, Capt. G. R. Williams will speak on the extension of containerization into developing countries, and Mr. R. S. F. Edwards, general manager of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, will give Merseyside's point of view on future trends in container traffic. No doubt he will also be able to do some hard selling with the Seaforth and Gladstone Dock projects being at an exciting stage.
American speakers in this section will be Mr. Michael McEvoy, president of Sea-Land
Services Inc, whose topic will be "Containers and customers" and Mr. Thomas W. Gleason, International Longshorernens Association chief, who will speak on the docker's role in the American container field.
After the first day, British speakers take a two-day rest, but we are sure that UK de
legates will have plenty of comment to make on the Wednesday topics, viz: regulation of containers, Customs, international banking, maritime insurance, cleaning and general transportation. Mr. V. F. Sheronas's discourse on "Cleansing and sanitizing of containers" should be particularly interesting as this subject has been in the background to date. Certainly "common user" equipment often lacks attention and a dirty exterior often hides serious structural defects.
To return to the symposia, the third day's programme covers container transport by
road, rail, air and sea, again without British
representation on the platform. However, road hauliers will look forward to reading Mr.
Welby Frantz. president of Eastern Express Inc., on "Containerization and development in the motor carrier field," and Mr. Owen Clarke, vice-president of B and 0/C and 0 Railroad, on "The role of railroads in the container industry and the land bridge concept." One foresees
here a lengthy discussion on the relative advantages of road and rail in container transport which will certainly not be overshadowed by a similar "contest" between sea and airline interests.
Freight handling comes into prominence on the final symposia day and here Mr. G.
Neville Bowman-Shaw, chairman of Lancer-Boss, will give his views on the problems of interrnodal terminal handling. This final symposium will be chaired by Mr. Joseph C. Scheleen, editor of Traffic World Magazine.