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Felixstowe port speeds service

25th September 1997
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Battling Felixstowe hauliers have won their fight to reduce financially sapping delays at Felixstowe port.

New working practices installed at the port on Monday 15 September have, says Paul Dawson, managing director of Felixstowe-based Deben Transport, "reduced delays and queues to no more than you would expect at any port".

Hauliers using the port have been complaining all summer about queues and delays of up to six hours to turn round tractive units. They said it was due to a lack of manpower.

Dawson explains there has been movement in trained staff at the port. New employees have been brought in to do unskilled tasks which the semiskilled workers were having to do before. This has freed more workers to operate the RTGs at the port. Dawson says: We are very pleased with the changes. We are not getting the closures at the port that we used to."

Another meeting between hauliers and port authorities will take place in a couple of weeks when Dawson says hauliers will introduce further ideas to continue the progress that has been made.

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