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Dartford tenders
HRMS interested in building the third Dart for Tunnel were issued with invitations to tender this week.
The long-awaited decision to invite bidders to compete was announce. in the Commons this wee by Transport Minister David Mitchell, who told MPs that congestion at Dartford will not beconle :1 major problem before 1991/92, despite the completion of the M25.
Roadline numbers NATRJN.A.I. CARRIERS Roadline, the National Freight Consortium's merged parcels conipany, point.si'out that the 730 workers who have agreed to transfer from Roadllste UK to the new company (CM, February 22) are at locations throughout the country.
The number who have transferred at Gloucester and Swansea is 98 — ft-we' than first expected — and between 70 and 100 other employees have agreed to • transfer to sister NR: companies.
Ridley in ferry row TRANSP(.1R1 Secretary Nicholas Ridley has promised to be ready to hack up British interests ii the row Over the refusal o Zeebrugge port in Belgium to allow Scalia British Ferries' ships to enter the port.
He told MI's that he made "every conceivable effortto help the firm gain access to the port and he confirmed that he was able to use the Merchant Shipping Act to ban Belgian ferries from Britain if the problem wa. not resolved.
Strike goes on DRIVERS employed by William Harper, the Transport Development Group Liverpool subsidiary which is fighting the 'Fransport and General Workers Union's daily driving limits and secondary picketing rights in the city, voted last weekend to camrinne two-week strike.