150 EXHIBITORS AT HAMBURG
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Almost 150 exhibitors from 13 European countries will be featuring services, vehicles and equipment at the Hamburg Transport Show from November 16-20. The exhibition will focus attention on the latest developments in road, rail and sea transport and will have a large section emphasising the continuing growth of containerisation. Among the exhibits will be several new systems for the transport of perishables and dry and liquid bulk cargoes.
A joint display by French container makers will highlight the achievements of the industry whose production last year of 22,520 containers (20ft. basis) was only surpassed by Japan. Between 85 and 90 per cent of French container production is exported.
The Port of Hamburg which this year will handle more than .40,000 containers — thus ousting Bremen and Bremerhaven from the German lead — is being represented by another group exhibit.
The Hamburg event is actively supported by the "German Society for Combined Iran
sport" which has been instrumental in the evolution of German piggyback services and road vehicle swop body standards. Recent traffic figures of the German Kombiverkehr "trucks-on-rail" services were distorted by political and permit manoeuvres of certain countries on the Middle East route which left some hauliers little option but to use the train. But the terminal is greatly improved.
With an average of 550 trucks, trailers and German standard demountables moved each day on German piggyback trains the first six months of this year registered an increase of 19 per cent over the same period of 1975. Interest by British operators in the "internationalpiggyback service to Ljubljana is growing with 46 vehicles carried in August against 83 riding only as far as Munich. In 1975 over 5,000 British trucks used the short route between Cologne and Ludwigsburg.