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DOVER DEVELOPMENTS • A new freight drivers co plex, called the Wheelhouse has just opened at the East( Dock Ferry Terminal at Dover. Its restaurant provid waitress-service 24 hours a day/seven days a week, and within the building there is also a television lounge, lorr drivers shop and computeris information on vehicles cleared by customs.
Lorries are already being parked on newly-reclaimed land at Eastern Docks, eves though the reclamation scheme is not officially due t be completed until June. Th4 £5 million, five-hectare site i one of a number of developments being carried out at Dover this year with the Ha hour Board investing over £ million on site improvement: Freight Traffic increased 10.6 per cent during the firs three months of 1986, compared with the same period last year. The number of fet sailings throughout the first quarter at 9,392, was also u by 121 compared to last yea SNEERNESS FREIGHT • The Sheerness Port Authority has opened a new 1,300 m' Freight Examinatic Hal] within the main ferry tc mina] complex. The new fac ity offers five bays with docl levelers for general cargo with one bay exclusively for meat products including a cc room with hanging rails, and separate examination rooms for fresh, frozen, boxed or t fit meat. defrosting machine able to ommodate 10 boxes of at is also available along h a cold store capable of iperatures down to minus degrees Celsius.