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CORAS lompair Eireann, Ireland's semi-state transport company, has relaunched its parcels delivery service as Transtrack, a computer controlled 24-to-48hour road/rail service intended to generate 1R£10m (£8.3m).
The service, which started on Wednesday last week, replaces a mixture of overnight goods and passenger train-delivered parcels. Now, all goods are trunked from Dublin to provincial centres by freight train, from which containers are then distributed on CIE five and eight ton Bedford lorries.
A Sandvik computerised loading and sorting system has been installed at Dublin's North Wall sorting centre, and is capable of handling 3,000 parcels an hour. This is linked to a Digital computer which weighs, costs, and labels each parcel and guides it through the 36 CIE railheads in the scheme.
Computer terminals will be installed at Limerick, Waterford, Cork, and Galway in the coming months, and at other railheads as phone lines become available. A CIE spokesman told CM that this is the first computerised labelling and documentation system in Ireland.