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I Container I Transport Freightliners abroad
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A direct Freightliner service between Scotland and Europe—the Euro-Scot—will be run from Edinburgh, starting on October 7. It is intended to operate this rail container service five nights a week, and one of its purposes will be to feed traffic into Felixstowe for the North American container market.
Giving this news on August 29, BR's chairman and general manager for Scotland said that the Euro-Scot would be followed by another direct service, this time between Scotland and the new deep-water facilities at Tilbury, with container traffic for Australasia and the Far East.
He also revealed that the inland container base opening next year at Gartsherrie, near Coatbridge, will cater for Australasian and European traffic; it will provide groupage and Customs clearance for Scottish export goods.
BR's Scottish chairman said development of traffic to the Continent would inevitably be slow compared with the build-up of domestic Freightliners, largely through difficulties over free-on-board charges and the inertia of shippers to change. He revealed that E319 was using "'friendly persuasion" to persuade exporters to use containers; this was being done through Inter-Container Ltd., formed by BR in consultation with Continental railway companies. It would be equivalent to the Freightliner Companies, would own a wagon fleet and would conduct a sales campaign in Continental cities.
The Euro-Scot will have 450 tons capacity a night (135,000 tons a year) and by using BR's Harwich-Zeebrugge container ships it is intended to offer a 48-hour service to centres such as Brussels and Cologne, and three days to Northern Italy.
Clyde container depot
A £150,000 container handling depot at Braehead, Renfrew, has been completed and put into operation by Clyde Container Services Ltd. At a six-acre site West of Glasgow the company will initially stuff and unpack containers for Clyde shipment, later for the new terminal at Greenock. The principal work will be groupage and bulk-breaking for shippers having less than full container loads.
CCS Ltd., has been formed by Clyde Port Authority, Scottish Area Transport Group (TOG), Anchor Line Ltd., and Archibald Young, (Storage) Ltd.
Genoa Exhibition plans
The Genoa International Container Exhibition and Congress to be held in October (see CM August 23) is taking shape. As well as an open-air exhibition of container handling equipment, a hall will be devoted to container services and accessories. Among the exhibitors in this section is American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, which for several months now has been running a container service between Genoa and the USA.
Three themes have been chosen for the congress: "Participation of the Mediterranean countries in international container traffic", "Container transportation problems faced by different countries", and "Container prospects in the European Common Market". It is expected that the following speakers will present papers:—
D. L. Beattie, director. Department of National development. Sydney. Australia . Paolo Rho, director general of transport, EEC, Brussels: J. Van Leeuw. vice-director; Compagnie Maritime Beige: D. Greg nac, president and director general. Compagnie nouvelle des Cadres, SNCF ; S. Mandray, port director. Marsiglia : J. Dipner, Verband Deutscher Reeder. Hamburg: Philip H. Shirley, vice-president. Cunard Ltd; J. P. R. Sisschop, director, Netherlands Con tainer Association; D. A. Monreal, technical secretary general, Spanish Ministry of Public Works: G. V. Navarro, director general of Spanish ports; V. A. Bore, director. Axel Brostrom Ltd, Gothenberg; G. FlAchon, director general. lntercontainers, Basle. Switzerland: M. Diaz, president, American Export Isbrandtsen Lines: E. A. Gilbert, US Department of Transportation.
'Design for Export'
Two vacuum-formed plastics containers, designed and made by EPS (Research and Development) Ltd., Sittingbourne, Kent, for the storage and transportation of delicate equipment, were selected for the Design for Export exhibition at the Design Centre, London.
The first container was commissioned by Avo Ltd., of Dover, for the transport and storage of computer chassis. It was designed as intermittent packaging for units not in use and as the basis of packing for onward shipment.
The second container, for Pye Unicarn Ltd., Cambridge. was designed and produced to protect accessories for an atomic absorption spectrometer during transportation and storage on installation sites.