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Dover ro/ro
OVER 41,000 more commercial vehicles passed through Dover docks last year compared with 1977.
This, says the Dover Harbour Board in its traffic return figures for 1978, represents a 10.26 per cent increase. The figures show that 447,699 commercial vehicles used Dover last year, as against 406,042 the previous year.
The 1978 total is an eightfold increase on 1969's figure, illustrating the enormous growth of road haulage traffic through Dover.
A9 improved
WORK ON the four-mile section of the A9 between Tore, north of Inverness, and Maryburgh will begin next month.
The four-mile stretch of road includes a three-span bridge over the River Conon at Maryburgh, and the complete contract is worth E4m. The work should be completed within two years.
When this section is finished, along with the Kessock Bridge over the Moray Firth, it will make up a new nine-mile A9 route, by-passing a 20-mile detour via Inverness on the existing A9.
Working in
A NEW workshop was opened last week at National Carriers Reading Branch by Bill Odiam, Senior Area mechanical Engineer, Department of Transport.
The new six-bay workshop will be responsible for the maintenance and repair of almost 200 units which range from large tractive units to private cars and fork lift trucks.