Dutch Ferry Plan : Report Denied
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AREPORT from Holland that plans for a commercial-vehicle ferry service from Tilbury to Rotterdam, Holland, have been shelved indefinitely, has been denied by Frank Bustard and Sons. Ltd. The company says that negotiations are continuing along two different lines.
Use of tile ferry would speed up the transport of vegetables to Britain. At present, they travel by road or rail to the Hook of Holland and Flushing and are then transhipped, again being transferred to road or rail transport at Harwich and other ports. A ferry service would have avoided unnecessary handling.
One of the objections by the British authorities has concerned the differences in maximum legal dimensions of vehicles in Britain and Holland. Dutch hauliers proposed that trailers should be used for the work and that when they arrived on the ferry in this country, they should be towed by British tractors.