STARTING MONDAY: COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORT EXPORT SERVICE
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AN EXPORT transport contract worth £200,000 has been awarded to the Coventrybased international transport company, Morton's (Coventry) Ltd., by the Banbury division of the Export Packing Service Group. The two companies will co-operate in a service starting on Monday to provide exporters with comprehensive export packing, storage and transportation service.
Nerve centre will be at the 70-acre EPS complex at Chipping Warden, Oxfordshire, with the combined operation under the control of Mr. J. R. Hope, EPS executive director, and Mr. Eric Shortland, Morton's transport director. Morton's side of the project will be co-ordinated in Coventry by Mr. Ernest Howard, through a• Morton's trans port and administration depot at EPS, Banbury.
Twenty-six acres at Banbury are devoted to a concrete hard-standing marshalling area. There is 350,000 sq.ft. of heated covered storage space.
Each client will be allocated a building for his exclusive use at Banbury, together with a permanent EPS supervisor and staff.
• ONE HUNDRED thousand copies of an explanatory leaflet are to be distributed by the TRTA to explain the full implications for trade and industry of the Government's White Paper on freight. Further copies are available free of charge, from the Association at 1-H, Hay Hill,' London, W 1.