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Yorks hauliers in big Continental freight venture
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MEMBERS of the York sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, through the company they set up some years agoTrans-European Pallets (Great Britain) Ltd.
have bought an old railway goods station at Stepney Bank Side, Wincolmlee, in the heart of the Hull industrial area, but with good access to the docks. They will turn it into a road freight depot for 20-ton containers. pallets, Lancashire flats and trailers, to and from the Continent by the new ferry services, with particular reference to "smalls" traffic. Facilities for handling groupage traffic now being available at the new depot, the hauliers went by North Sea Ferries from Hull to Rotterdam last week for talks with Dutch haulage interests.
They were met by Dutch officials of North Sea Ferries at Rotterdam and toured Europort, where eventually they may have a depot of their own in the future. But after discussion with the secretary of Royal Netherlands Transport Enterprises Ltd.. Dr. C. Groenmann, at the Hague, it was decided for some time ahead to use the excellent Dutch road haulage facilities and link-ups which he offered.
German hauliers were to join these talks, but now the York group is to have a separate meeting with them in Hamburg later this year.
At Hull. a contract has already been let for £12,000 to make hard standings for containers and trailers. It is planned to spend a further £75,000 to £100,000 on the conversion of the old rail goods depot.
Through Trans-European, an intensive advertising campaign for traffics is to be mounted on the Continent, and most probably in the north of England and the Midlands, the catchment area for the Hull terminal in Britain, which is already providing substantial outward loads.
Traffics handled range from cocoa bean for York chocolate manufacturers, to plywood. hardboard, chemicals, iron billets and deck chairs—the latter from Poland.
Managing director/general manager of the new Hull freight terminal, Mr. A. Forden, who has spent all his career in the road haulage industry. foresees a tremendous upsurge in traffic through the terminal in the next few years, thanks to the ferry services.