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Export Services Exhibition
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By Norman H. Tilsley MOST every facet of export handling, plus road haulage and ;upped services which are so vital speeding goods through, were ered together under one .roof this for the first-ever Export Services hition at Olympia! London, which ed on Monday and ends today lay).
oening the exhibition. Lord Rhodes. amentary Secretary. Board of c, said that £.13m. worth of exports he country every day, but there Was ed for this figure to be increased nother i+rn. To achieve this it was sary that exporters should know the of ancillary services that were avail-banks. forwarding agents, insur
companies, ship owners port irides, transport operators and the rd Rhodes then gave a send off " Channel flow semi-trailer which left 'pia for Osnabruck carrying E23.000 worth of mobile handling machinery.
Almeether there were 73 exhibitors, ranging from finance houses and banks, packing and forwarding agents to international hauliers and roll-on/roll-off ferry companies.
Among them were A.F.S. (Shipping) Ltd., who. apart from operating an inland parcels collection. and a delivery and warehousing service from 13 different points in the country, also act as shipping and forwarding agents.
Alltransport Lid., of London, who run an extensive groupage service to the Continent, also offer cross-Channel road services and overseas removals and supply steel containers, as general agents for Container Transport International. A feature of Alltransport's stand was the company's recently installed system of aligned documentation.
Anglo-Continental Container Services Ltd. featured one of their larger insulated containers. Apart from its pioneer
ing activities in containers across the Irish Sea, the ACCS stand showed details , of the arrangements the company had, trading under the name SEAROAD, with Dutch hauliers Van Gend and Loos, which was formally inaugurated on January 1 this year.
The stand of Bolton Export Packing Services Ltd. was a TIR semi-trailer. This company, apart from its activities with its subsidiary Sharpies Europa Express Ltd. in transporting export loads to the docks. operates a fleet of TIR trailers for use on roll-on/roll-off ferry services. There are offices in London and Rotterdam.
Advertising themselves as the largest transport organization in the United Kingdom, the British Railways stand illustrated the many roll-onlroll-off services operated via Harwich. Dover and Newhaven to the Continent, and also their Irish services.
The British Road Ferry Services Ltd. stand pictorially illustrated the many 5erc29
vices they offer to the Continent in conjunction with Van Gend and Loos. of Holland, and Societe' Belgo-Anglaise Des Ferry-Boats of Belgium. More than 300 articulated semi-trailers, containers and demountable flats were said to be available for direct shipment to Western Europe.
The many and varied shipping/road haulage activities of the Coast Lines Group were featured at their stand. Not only were the activities of the 12 different shipping companies given, but also the transport undertakings of Thomas Allen Ltd.: Coastal Roadways Ltd.; John Forman Ltd.; James Hemphill Ltd.; A. S. Jones and Co. Ltd.: The Liverpool Cartage Co. Ltd.; Northern Ireland Trailers Ltd.; and Ulster Ferry Transport Ltd. Of special interest on the export side were the well known Ferrymasters Ltd.. and the Group's links with Tayforth Ltd., Eurofreight Ltd. and Free Trade Wharf Co. were illustrated.
Highlight of the Ellerman's Wilson Line Ltd. stand was the working model of the company's new roll-on/roll-off terminal at Hull and of the 8,000-ton ferry. now under construction, which will soon be operating between Hull and Gothenburg. An important feature of the new service will be a door-to-door container service. The new service is due to start in the spring of 1966.
Of particular interest to hauliers and customers seeking information about Lancashire flats and other unit loading methods was the stand of James Fisher and Sons Ltd.--a conventional ferry operator who has operated for many years between Felixstowe and Rotterdam. A siste7 company. Unit Loads Ltd.. offers a door-to-door service with dimensions and details of the various flats, tilt-type containers and loading platforms.
Also prominently featuring a future roll-on/roll-off ferry service from Hull was General .Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. who, as part of an international consortium of six shipping companies, are to participate in North Sea Ferries, due to c30 start operations to Rotterdam in December. Detailed information of this company's container services and transport fleet was available.
Photographs and literature of the smart articulated outfits operated by .Gondrand Freres, both in this country and on the Continent, were a feature of this internationally known company's stand. Gondrand offer groupage services between London. Milan and Turin. plus a door-to-door service of complete loads to any western European destination.
The Proprietors of Hay's Wharf Ltd. stand illustrated the quite fantastic overall export services offered by this company. On the road transport side, mention was made of the activities of Duncan Barbour, Samuel Taylor, Channel Road Services Ltd. and W. Coleman and Son.
The stand of Howard Tenens Forwarding Ltd. of Leamington Spa—a company which provides a comprehensive service to exporters—highlighted the international haulage activities of European Transits Ltd.. who operate an extensive fleet of TIR vehicles. Mention was made of Graham and Brown Transport Ltd. of Coventry. who work in conjunction with European Transits.
Lloyd's Packing Group detailed on its stand the many kinds of export sevices the six companies in the group carried out, which include among them packing, airfreight and shipping and forwarding. The road transport activities of Lloyd's Transport and Warehousing Co. (Manchester) Ltd. were prominently featured.
Of great interest was the "drive-on/ drive-off" working model of the Harwich Dock Company's installations on the Mann and Son (London) Ltd. stand. Special mention was made of this company's operations, using the roll-on/rolloff vessels of Wallenius Lines, to destinations in Norway. Sweden, Denmark and northern German, and its proposed service from Southampton to Rouen.
International haulage cannot be discus
sed without the name of M.A.T. Transport Ltd. being mentioned. This company's stand was an eye-catcher. On it was a Boss heavy-duty fork-lift truck carrying one of the M.A.T. 15-ton capacity TIR lift units. The company's international haulage activities were well illustrated by photographs. M.A.T. operate 150 TIR semi-trailers and have a multitude of containers of various types and capacity.
Last—and one of the most popular— was the stand of the Transport Ferry Service, whose roll-on/roll-off ferries pioneered this kind of operation between this country and Ireland and the Continent. It was one of the TFS ferries that was to carry the Channeffiow vehicle that Lord Rhodes "sent off" to Osnabruck. mentioned in the introduction.