Road Priority for Docks Traffic
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TRADERS have clearly shown their
preference for road transport in the carriage of export cargo to the docks, the National Ports Council declares in its interim plan for port development in Britain. The plan, which recommends the development of schemes at 14 ports costing about £150m. to £155m. and involving a construction of 70 new berths and the renovation of 46 others, was published on Wednesday.
The docks, the council says, must in their capacity as terminals for inland flow of traffic, adapt themselves to this preference.
Referring to the Port. of London the council says that information about the inland origins and destinations of port traffic was not yet available. But a special analysis had been obtained of the origins of the journeys of heavy goods vehicles crossing the cordon line of the London traffic survey, the drivers of which declared that the purpose of the journey was to deliver to the docks. This showed that heavy goods vehicles carrying machinery and electrical goods and other manufactures for delivery to the docks on a weekday in 1962 totalled 486. Of these, 263 came from not more than 60 miles away, 162 front between 60 and 120 miles and 61 from more than 120 miles.
The delays to road vehicles at the docks are also referred to in the council's first annual report.