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special correspondent 4 THE FIRST Containers in a new freight service between the United States and Britain arrived .at Heathrow on Tuesday, in a Boeing 747F Jumbo jet freighter operated by Seaboard World Airlines.
This is a daily service designed to bring in 20 ISO containers on each aircraft, and it is expected that before the end of the year three aircraft will be operating the service. The containers are discharged on to a loading gantry from the nose of the aircraft and lowered on to Crane Freuhauf 20ft skeletal trailers. Thirty five of these trailers are already in service.
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TIPPER OPERATORS with high-density loads are faced with heavy expenditure for repairing buckled tailgates. Glyn S. John Ltd, of Cardiff, which uses 12 tipping semitrailers to carry crushed bonemeal and offal on short hauls, has overcome the problem by redesigning the tailgate to half of its original dimensions.
Crane Fruehauf, which supplied the original vehicles six years ago, modified the back end by cutting the tailgate into halves and welding the top half to the corner posts of the body. Using a full-width hinge, the bottom half was refitted. The half tailgate is also fitted with a discharge hatch. clearance are collected either by the consignee or a haulier supplying tractive units.
Like other container operators, Seaboard World supplies both the containers and the chassis. The system was likened this week to surface container operators. "A combination of Sea-Land at Grangemouth and the Danish Bacon operation at Grimsby," said one freight forwarder.
Seaboard expects that its service will capture traffic at present travelling by container ship, and thus bring new traffic to haulage contractors based near airports capable of taking 747F Jumbo jets. The Seaboard containers are supplied by Messerschmitt Bolkow Blohm and are of alumin-. ium construction, have a payload of 22 tons and comply with TIR specifications. Another 50 containers will go into service later this month.
This ISO container was one of the early arrivals at
An operation likely to be cut back soon as a result of reduced consumer spending is the shipment of 24 trailer loads a week of deep freeze equipment from Norway to Immingham. This traffic is carried and stored by Humber McVeigh Ltd, which sends the 24 semi-trailers in pairs lashed together fore and aft by webbing strapping called Surefast. According to a spokesman for the company, it has not experienced any topdeck trailer movement, even through the heaviest of seas, despite the fact that chains, chucks and cross-battens have been eliminated.
Heathrow on Seaboard's new container service. It will be lowered onto the skeletal trailer to be tranparted to the customs clearance area for collection by a local haulier. (Picture by Flight International.)