New company provides permits from Ireland
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A NEW company, trading as International Transport Brokers, with headquarters in King's Lynn, Norfolk, is providing a documentation service for international operations. .ITB's manager, Mr Len Beecher, told CM that the company had neither vehicles nor operator's licence because its only function was to provide the paper work. He said that they arranged carnets through an insurance broker and provided permits from two non-British sources.
Mr Beecher explained that provided a company had a registered office abroad then it could qualify for permits from that country's international permit allocations. He was not prepared to divulge the countries through which ITB was working.
Mr Beecher said that ITB's staff consisted of himself and three others, and when asked if Mr Guest or Mr Stone, formerly of Target Transport, were directors of the company he said they were not.
Later, however, Mr J. T. Guest, formerly a Target Transport director, said he was an ITB director. He told CM that ITB was •in the process of forming a company in the Republic of Ireland. He said that because one of his parents was Irish he was in a position to claim Irish nationality and therefore forming a company presented little difficulty.
Mr Robert Halpin, speaking as Mr Guest's solicitor, said that Mr Guest was anxious to ensure that it was clear that there was no connection between Target Transport and his new company.
ITB will function as a shipping and forwarding agent, and the haulage contractors whom they engage, principally for Middle East operations, will be issued with ITB's Irish road haulage permits. Mr Guest pointed out that a similar system worked through Belgium where British vehicles picked up loads and ran on Belgian permits. "Until now we have only sent out one operator and that was about five weeks ago with three lorries," •he said.
Mr Guest pointed out that the company "would not bb ready to deal with hundred of vehicles" in the early stages of its establishment.