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transport by David and freight handling Lowe
Container services exhibition
• To see Olympia barely filled by fewer than 60 exhibitors at the Fourth International Container Services and Equipment exhibition this week is disappointing--a feeling expressed by some of the firms. Nine exhibitors are individual port authorities. Five British ports represented are London, Liverpool, Bristol, Clyde, Felixstowe, two, Malmo and Le Havre, are Continental and the remaining two, rather surprisingly, in the United States—Long Beach California and the Maryland Port Authority's Port of Baltimore.
Both the American ports are building new berthing facilities for container operations. Baltimore has two new berths due to start working in July 1971 and two in 1972; a further two are planned. Long Beach is presently engaged in a S 40m project to add three new container terminals covering an area of 300 acres. When completed this will make Long Beach second to New York as the largest container complex in the United States.
Malmo, principally a general cargo port, has good facilities for container traffic and is served by twice weekly sailings from Felixstowe and Goole.
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board stand features the facilities planned for Liverpool's Seaforth Dock scheme which is scheduled to start operating in 1971.
The Port of Bristol has a new Ocean container terminal opening in the autumn at Royal Edward Dock.
In addition to the ports mentioned the British Transport Docks Board's exhibit features its 19 ports. The theme of the display is to provide information for shippers and ship-owners about the Board's 14 lift-on /lift-off and 19 roll-on /roll-off services from nine of its major ports. The Board has announced a new weekly container sailing from the Garston Terminal to Spain by Ellermans Wilson Line and also that its container and unit load traffic amounted to 2.4m tons in 1969, almost double the 1968 figure.
Geest Industries Ltd features its container ship service which operates twice daily between Ipswich and Maassluis. This service uses the company's 8ft cube 4-ton, 445 Cu ft containers which are available insulated if required. Geest also has groupage facilities at Barry, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Southampton.
Three fork-lift truck manufacturers have stands displaying their latest models. Lansing Bagnall's models FOER 9 and FOER 5.25 are termed "Freight-Loaders". These trucks have a low closed-mast height with full free-lift for stacking inside container and side-shipping for easy alignment of loads. Clark Equipment also displays models suitable for container loading.
On the Lancer Boss Ltd stand its series 2500 side-loader with hydraulic toplift attachment is shown handling a 20ft 150 container. Also on the stand is a selection of Boss Mk ill fork-lift trucks which this year won the coveted Council of Industrial Design Award.
British Oxygen Co Ltd's large stand features the Polarstream in-transit refrigeration system. The use of liquid nitrogen in the system enables cargo temperatures to be accurately maintained to plus or minus 1deg. Fahrenheit. A sectionalized container illustrates a typical installation..
On Winn International Containers Ltd's stand shippers can discuss container leasing and the new trailer leasing service. Containers on the stand demonstrate some of the types of container available for lease from the company.
An interesting exhibitor is Kone OY of Finland, manufacturer of electric container handling cranes and spreaders. Scale models of a variety of the firm's giant products are on display.
Banking and telecommunications are well represented at the exhibition. So, too, is container securing equipment, by H. K. Porter. with its cargo control equipment, and by Coubro and Scrutton with a full range of securing equipment for container and conventional vessels.
On the whole the exhibits are interesting and useful to shippers and in fact the lack of numbers benefits visitors by allowing greater space for, looking at the items on display and for talking to representatives of the firms.
The exhibition closes today (Friday).
Berth 39 in action
• With the loading last week of the containership Jervis Bay, Overseas Containers Ltd inaugurated its direct Tilbury-Australia service, which has been delayed for 15 months owing to labour difficulties surrounding the controversial berth 39, on the west side of the Tilbury container terminal, next to the common-user berth being used by European Unit Routes.
With nearly 1400 containers on board, Jervis Bay sailed on her maiden voyage on May 29. Next ship to sail from the berth will be OCL's Encounter Bay, due to leave on June 5, followed by ACT 2, belonging to Associated Container Transportation Ltd., who jointly use the berth.