Tilbury's booming container traffic
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• Because of doubt as to whether 1 Maplin airport and seaport will be ready time to cope with the "overflow" container traffic frOm Tilbury, the Port London Authority is considering whether resurrect its £10m scheme for two contaii berths on the riverside docks.
The PLA, it was announced this we accepts that Maplin would be a suitable for a new container and ro-ro port, ser‘ by deep water access and with new inis communications links built for the n airport.
The Maplin container project 1 received Government approval in princi and the riverside project, drawn up so time ago, is now to be reconsidered Last year 250,000 containers w handled at Tilbury, making London second biggest container port in Euro This year's throughput is expected to 300,000 boxes, with Tilbury's maxim capacity of 500,000 being reached by 197 Four shipping lines represented on South American Shipping Conferet stated this week that they would conth to use London for the next six mont after which the agreement would be subj to three months' notice on either side.
The Conference ships will move to 4 berth of the Royal Victoria docks wh the largest transit shed in the docks comp permits fully mechanized worki Improved dockers' productivity is given the reason for the retention by the P1 of the South American traffic.