New Sahara freight run
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k NEW trans-Sahara freight ;mice is being established by in alliance of three major :ompanies to provide a link vith the Nigerian city of Kano.
The service is being operat.?.d by Seevar Projects (UK) in issociation with Ferrymasters Ind the Algerian state tran;port company, Societe Na.ionale Des Transports klgeriens.
SNTR has been working the rans-Sahara routes for some fears, but the routes have )een checked by Seevar, vhich spent 10 months planling the new service.
Already it says that it has ;hipped loads from as far as 3othenburg, Sweden, using he network of 27 Ferrymaster lepots scattered throughout he UK, Ireland, Scandinavia ind Western Europe.
The loads are collected from :he Ferrymaster depots and :onsolidated into groupage :raffle in full trailer loads. With TIR services, the trailers are ;hipped from Marseilles to klgiers using the ro-ro faciities.
It is in Algeria that all the :argo is discharged into a • 5ecurity compound and trans ferred into the trans-Sahara trailers of SNTR. They are then taken with one of the company's 3,000 tractive units across the desert.
The advantages of the new service include same day transhipment and Customs clearing of loads through Al giers and Kano. No Nigerian port clearance certificate is needed.
SNTR claims to be the only company offering full freight services across the Sahara-, and as a result most of its equipment is purpose-built for the job.