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The container industry's own exhibition
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As already announced briefly in CM, the first of a series of biennial freight container exhibitions will be staged at Earls Court, London, next September. The joint organizers are the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and lliffe Exhibitions Ltd., who between them have extensive experience in promoting leading British exhibitions—notably the Commercial Motor Show (with which the new exhibition will alternate year by year), the Motor Show, the Mechanical Handling Exhibition and the International Plastics Exhibition.
The International Freight Container and Container Handling Exhibition, to give it its full title, has the full support of the SM MT's freight container manufacturers' section and heavy trailer manufacturers' group. The container industry has come to feel that more impact can be achieved in one really comprehensive biennial exhibition than in a multiplicity of exhibitions featuring containers.
In the container world it is important that the carrier has the right equipment for the job. The haulier, for instance, should ideally have a skeletal trailer or a platform vehicle equipped with corner locking devices, while depot, terminal and port operators need to select the right types of transfer equipment to suit the particular type and scale of operation.
The scope of the biennial exhibition will include intermodal and IATA (air freight) containers, skeletal and other container-carrying trailers and vehicles, handling and loading equipment, construction materials, equipment, accessories and services.
Considerable interest has already been shown in the event, and preliminary bookings have already been received from over 50 British and foreign exhibitors, including most of the major equipment manufacturers in the UK. The exhibition takes place from September 22 to 26. Further information about the exhibition can be obtained from the Exhibition Manager, Freight Container Exhibition Joint Committee, 21-24 Grosvenor Place, London. SW1, phone 01-235 6611.