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consortium— by SAM BUCKLEY 0 NE of the UK's first inland Customs clearance centres to be administered by a consortium of shipping and forwarding agents started operations this week in Hull.
This development is an important event for those engaged in Britain's international trade, and heralds the establishment of more depots at other UK terminals. (CM Sept. 1 pages 34 and 96) More locally, it is expected to boost considerably import traffic through Hull.
The Hull Euroscan Customs Clearance Depot, will enable operators of ferry trailers and containers loaded with groupage traffic and mixed small consignments to clear their goods through Customs. Up to now such traffic has had to travel via other ferry ports, owing to the lack of facilities in Hull.
Over the last year unit load services to the port and to nearby Immingham have grown considerably—so the centre will fill a real need.
Hard work
Hull Euroscan has evolved from a year's negotiations with Customs and hard organizational work by the consortium of nearly 30 local and national forwarding agents, in co-operation with BR, Associated Humber Lines and British Transport Docks Board.
Largely concerned with the development has been Trans-European Pallet Services (Great Britain) Ltd., at whose premises (471 Wilcolmlee, Hull) the centre has been established. It is planned, however, to build a new depot on an adjacent site—west of the Hull Fish Docks—in about 12 months' time, to coincide with the opening of road connections and BR's Freightliner terminal.
Mr. A. Fordon, managing director of Trans-European Pallet Services and manager of Hull Euroscan, told me: "With all the leading British forwarding agents as members of the consortium we cannot fail to attract considerable traffic through Hull and to provide a truly efficient service to importers-.