New throughservice to Portugal
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• A road-rail-sea through-transport freight service has been started between Britain and Portugal by a new company called Interoute Ltd., a subsidiary of F. C. Bennett and Sons Ltd., haulage contractors of Kingston Blount, near High Wycombe.
Freight is loaded into 12-metre Merriworth Customs-sealed trailers, which are taken to Southampton docks for shipment by Thoresen ferry to Le Havre. The trailers are then loaded on to French Railways Kangaroo wagons and are taken by rail via Paris to the Spanish border. There they are met by Portuguesebased tractive units of Interoute and complete their journey to Portugal by road.
The operation takes less than five days, and lnteroute will accept any size of load from 50 kilogrammes to 20 tons the company has groupage facilities at Long Crendon, Bucks, and Sacavem, Lisbon. The carriage of a oneton load occupying no more than 80 Cu. ft. would cost £32, and of a 20-ton load E530 door-to-door.
Within the next few weeks lnteroute services will be extended to include Spain, and services to Italy are planned via the Kangaroo terminal at Milan.