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Paul Brockington The production of van containers and filers in America is expected to double in ;s than 10 years, according to a report 7.ontainerization—an Outlook to 1977" ;tied by the market research department the Kaiser Aluminium company.
It is estimated that the use of aluminium r van containers and piggyback trailers .11 have increased by two-and-a-half times fove the current level to some 45,000 tons I 1977. Rather more than 200,000 van ailers and containers will be produced in /77, compared with 100,000 in 1967. The am n factor affecting the growth of coninerization will be the increase in domestic id foreign traffic based on maritime connets.
Piggyback traffic will, it is anticipated, ave increased to 118m tons by 1977, 3mpared with 33m tons in 1965. The Tort emphasizes that handling containers ithout wheels has a number of advantages ver handling trailers but that continer-on-flatcar traffic is unlikely to become I major importance in piggyback operaons. Although piggyback traffic is expand inroads into the traffic will he made by irfreight operators, and the steamship lines 7i11 also face increasing competition from le air lines. By 1977 airfreight will have xpanded to 5.9 per cent of the volume of iggyback traffic, the report states, whereas he percentage was 2.7 in 1965.
In foreign markets airfreight will have xpanded its share of transport relative to eaborne traffic from 1 per cent (in 1965) to 1.1 per cent in 1977. The introduction of umbo jets requiring rapid loading will inTease the use of containers. By 1977 the veight of cargo carried by air will have one up to llm short tons. Assuming that he Vietnam war has ended by 1970, military ontainer requirements will increase up to .970 and will then decline, the report coniudes,