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Felixstowe will soon be container champ
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THE PORT of Felixstowe's container handling capacity will more than double in the next 18 months as the result of a £27m expansion scheme, reports JOHN DURANT.
Roll-on/roll-off traffic is anticipated to grow considerably. In 1978 the ro-ro terminals handled 1,429,071 tonnes out of the port's total of nearly 5m tonnes, and 272,522 units of lorry and container traffic passed through.
Felixstowe is already the ;econd largest container port n the UK after Dover — the Dort has been a subsidiary of European Ferries in 1976.
Keith Wickenden, the :hairman, said last week that this latest expansion plan, ;upported by the workforce and shop stewards, would take the port to first place in the :ontainer league. It would nean taking traffic away from 3outhampton, but the port is also in strong competition with a number of Continental )orts.
In the first months of last Tear, Felixstowe handled 158,000 containers — an inTease of ten per cent on 1978.
rowth in container and cargo raffic in the next five years ;ould bring more than eight nillion tonnes of cargo, in:hiding 400,000 boxes.
This latest move follows the toyal Assent to the Felixtowe Dock and Railway Act anpowering the company to anbark on expansion. Civil mgineering is starting mmediately, including an adlitional 400ft of multi-purpose :ommon-user quay.