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BR EXTENDS CONTAINER GRID
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By John Darker
ftContainer brochure British Rail and the Marine Container Revolution stresses that containerization will entail concentration of tonnages at fewer ports, fed from large inland Customs depots.
Most export shipments are too small for standard 20 ft containers and consolidation ol goods will be tarried out in the depots now being set up in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Scotland. Others will follow in North-East England, the Bristol area and East Midlands.
To meet Customs requirements the inland depots will be run by a combined effort of British shipping consortiums, rail and road haulage and warehousing operators.
Except in London, only one depot is envisaged at each large industrial centre to provide economies of scale and to reduce handling costs per container. Wide coverage creates more through loads to destinations beyond the overseas port; it also assists return container loads of consolidated traffic.
Large depots, too, provide a better balance between full and empty containers, with better availability, and the high volume of traffic warrants rail connection and craneage for bulk container trains.
The brochure implies that shippers consider this last aspect to be most important "for only a rail system can extend inland the bulk conveyance of the ship".
For the future, BR notes that its container grid is extending from six to 20 or more routes this year. Rail rates "in train load working can be competitive even for relatively short distances, but for the longer hauls they become very keen" it says.
NOISE PROBLEM
PROFESSOR E. J. RICHARDS, director of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at Southampton University, is to present a paper on the problem of traffic noise at an international conference on "Roads in the Landscape" at the University of Keele on July 17.
Open Day: The President and Council of the Institute of the Motor Industry are holding an open day for members and their ladies at Fanshaws, Brickendon, on Saturday, June 17 from 2.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Details from The Secretary, The Institute of the Motor Industry, Fanshaws, Brickendon, Hertford, Herts, Tel. Bayford 282: Hertford 4466.
Lino on M4: The route of a further 12* miles of the M4 London—South Wales Motorway, from Theale to Winnersh in Berkshire, has been fixed by the Minister of Transport. She has published fresh proposals for the 6i miles route between Winnersh and Holyport.
Liverpool Trailer Centre: Another Scarnmell trailer centre—at Garlick. Burrell and Edwards, in Liverpool—was officially opened last week by Mr B. L Braithwaite, sales director of Scammell Lorries Ltd.