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FISH RAIL must reduce nit costs to compete with I8 tonne lorry, BR chairSir Robert Reid said in annual report published veek, te report, for the 15 ths to March 31 last, ,s a "daunting" loss of m, £250m of which is ed on the 1984/85 minstrike. And 00m of that ire is blamed on a tority" of BR staff who ed to move such coal, oil iron ore traffic as was ed.
BR's Railfreight scctor ives no Government [dy, it now faces addi,1 interest charges, and Sir !rt warned that BR has a le on its hands" to rescustomer confidence.
s report emphasises that must continue to change mphasis from running a ,ay to serving its ensers, and this includes peting against 38 tonne s. "We have to learn the ns of recent strikes that n the customers we ght could not get to
or move their traffic r than by rail did find r ways."
spite the Railfreight loss, £407.8m turnover, BR s point to positive !vements in 1984/85. It igaged itself completely wagonload operations now concentrates this less on the Speedlink serwhich offers overnight ices for "lorry-sized" ;.. It points to another worth of Section 8 capital grants having been made for private facilities designed to take traffic off roads. Since the scheme began in the midSeventies, 156 grants worth 154.5m have been made for annual traffic of up to 34.8m tonnes of freight. This has taken 1.5m lorry loads off the roads each year.
Freightliners, which announces its detailed results this week, made a pre-interest surplus of 0,5m on £126.2m turnover, and claims a 40 per cent share of the inland deep sea container haulage market, despite its having suffered from two national dock
Masterhaul, the joint venture launched by Freightliners and Russell Davies Haulage earlier this year has won a contract worth Lim per year. The UK liner agency Worms Cargo Service UK has signed the contract which covers much of its domestic container haulage requirements.
strikes and the prolonged strike at Southampton.
freightpoint, its distribution and storage product line, won eight new customers and has another eight under negotiation. This has helped Freightliner reduce its dependence upon trunk haulage for its business.