Timber Speed-up S INCE the modernization of Garston (near Liverpool) Docks
21st August 1964, Page 28
21st August 1964
Page 28
Page 28, 21st August 1964
— Timber Speed-up S
INCE the modernization of Garston (near Liverpool) Docks
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and the installation of 25 electrically operated cranes, the clearance of timber cargoes by road transport has shown an astonishing increase. In 1960 only four per ctInt of arriving timber was dispatched by motor vehicles. The figure is now running at 35 per cent and it is estimated that by the end of the year it will probably reach 50 per cent. Timber is now loaded direct from the ship to waiting lorries. Previously the bulk of timber was slanted into railway wagons, an operation which involved expensive off-loading. Consignments must now be removed from the quayside immediately for conveyance to importers' yards or to the two storage yards in the vicinity of the docks.
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