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Extra sailings
P AND 0 NORMANDY Ferries have added two extra sailings a day on their DoverBoulogne service because of the high level of traffic using the route.
The company had intended that only two sailings should leave Dover each day during the winter months but they say that due to the high level of traffic using the route the other two have been added to the schedule.
Sweet contract
EASTERN BRS are carrying out a contract from 70 Norfolk farmers to move 80,000 tons of sugar beet to local sugar refineries from the fields.
The King's Lynn branch are picking up beet from the fields in 15, 32-ton artic vehicles and five men are being employed to load and clean the beet before it goes to the refineries.
Branch manager Mr Ken Pierson says that the branch is totally involved in the beet harvest. "Ten years ago our drivers would be in their wellies loading the stuff with pitch forks," he said, "but now the company provides specialist agricultural vehicles."
Legal meeting
INDUSTRIAL relations and the Sex Discrimination Act are just two of the topics on the agenda for the forthcoming meeting of the Anglia Division of the Freight Transport Association.
The meeting is to be held on Tuesday at the Copdock International Hotel at Copdock near Ipswich, at 7pm. The speaker will be Mr H. S. Bonner, senior industrial relations officer of Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Services.
London agm
THE London Centre of the Guild of Transport Managers is to hold its annual general meeting at the Horseshoe Inn, Clerkenwell, London, on November 10 at 7.30 pm.