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by CM reporter 10,MIDDLE EAST hauliers faced with a drying up of pean permits, operators finding new ways to beat wall of paper that stops m crossing Europe.
;rerman railways report that re are using the trains to bljana and an extra train is )e put on next week using stock from Austrian railbut they emphasise t this will be a purely iporary measure.
'rucks using the second n will be put on a normal man service from Cologne Munich and will go from nich to Ljubljana lUt some operators have nd alternative methods. kinson International manrig director Mr Jim Wood ;cribed the permits iation as "terrible'' and told that he was now sending loads part of the way by "The trouble with the railway route is the cost and time involved in converting the . trailers to go on the train — now the situation must be resolved with more road permits," said Mr Wood.
But C-Tran International managing director Mr Terry Cook said that his company of owner-drivers was converting its fleet to go on the rail route.
"I have heard that forwarding agents are encouraging hauliers to get French permits and run bent through Italy," alleged Mr Cook. "All that is going to do is increase the forwarders' profits," he said.
News on the permits front is still not good. No word has been heard about the visits of DoE men to Europe in the hope of getting more permits and the DoE would not offer any ray of hope when it was asked about the position.