Freight boom MAs freight continues to boom, reports Freight News
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Express, May 19, ferry majors Townsend Thoresen and Sealink plan more sailings yet to add to the amazing current daily total of 118 through Dover.
Next year the fast of two new super ferries will operate on the Dover/Calais route and Sealink is considering increasing the frequency of the pure freight ro-ro run to Dunkirk, which supplements the six-a-day train ferry services from Dover Western Docks.
MA major breakthrough has been made in the bus sector in Scandinavia, according to the monthly Scania World Wide. It is one of Europe's longest (2,000km) bus services, between Norway's capital city of Oslo and Harnmerfest on the North Cape but passing largely through Sweden Morris Thomassen, owner of Alta Transport, has been carrying freight, largely fruit and vegetables out and fish back, on this route since 1962 and often carried the odd passenger in the cab. Then a civil servant in the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications came up with the idea of a combined passenger/freight service, After rejecting the possibility of running an artic bus, Thomassen opted for a luxury coach, the Scam KII2 rear-engined chassis with trailing axle bogie and the 900 Superstar bodywork from Ajoldd. He has had a large freight compartment with refrigerating unit built at the back, plus a smaller stowage compartment for express freight, and 18 luxury seats at the front. 'A mongrel, half truck, half bus? By no means. The design engineers at Ajokki have avoided any compromise on the elegant, aerodynamic styling. Increasing the height of the rear section to a full four metres has heightened the excitement of the design.'
The journey, with three drivers, takes 25 hours.
Government backing can be counted on to give Le Havre and Rouen first-class road access to the future Channel tunnel, M. Fabius, the French Prime Minister, said at the inauguration of Le Havre's multibulk terminal, according to the ports monthly news letter. He said the ports will also be linked to the motorway network to the north and north east; where the traffic warrants it, he feels the new expressways being planned should be toll roads.
1111Many articles in French newspapers have been raving over the Channel tunnel project as something many people have been waiting ages for, says Europort South, the monthly magazine of the Port of Marseilles Authority.