Elm extension at Parkeston Quay
20th August 1971, Page 13
20th August 1971
Page 13
Page 13, 20th August 1971
— Elm extension at Parkeston Quay
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• Work has begun on a £500,000 extension to British Railways' Parkeston Quay container terminal—already one of the country's most intensively used container ports.
The extension will increase capacity at the terminal by 50 per cent and involves the provision of two 30-ton container handling cranes serving a new 65011-long storage area.
Facilities in the new area will follow the pattern of the existing installations with two cranes spanning five stacking rows and a rail track (total span 7511 6in.) with cantilevers extending over two rows of containers on one side and two rows and a roadway on the other.