Bigger British slice
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I After a year of continuous decline, British hauliers' share of international traffic picked up during the first quarter of 1986. Their 48,000 journeys represented 41% of total traffic by vehicles of all nationalities.
In the last three months of 1985 the British share dropped to a record low of 38%. However, the latest figures are still worse than those for 12 months earlier, when British operators made 45% of all journeys.
These figures, which relate only to powered vehicles, appear in the Department of Transport's Bulletin of ro-ro statistics. Traffic was up by 12% on the first quarter of 1985. The total of powered vehicles from all countries was 116,900 — a rise of 15%. Unaccompanied trailers rose by 9% to 105,300.
The report shows that even before Spain joined the EEC its hauliers greatly increased their traffic to Britain. Between 1984 and 1985 this went up by over 40%, with nearly 15,000 journeys last year — the same number made by Italian vehicles. And in the first three months of
Spain's EEC membership there was a 65% increase over the same period in the previous year.
However, hauliers from the other new EEC member, Portugal, made only 1,000 journeys here in the whole of 1985. This is still more than Greece. In the country's fifth year of EEC membership, Greek hauliers made only 800 journeys to Britain.
• Stockport-based Dow Freight Services has increased the number of accompanied trailers running on its weekly Groupage Services between the UK and Italy from five to ten.
The move follows the signing of a 2500,000 deal with the Italian freight forwarders Dometrans.