MISSION TO MOSCOW
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CONTINENTAL Ferry Trailers, of Barking, working in close collaboration with their Swedish counterparts Bilspedition of Gothenburg and a Finnish haulage co-operative. Suomen Kaukokiito of Helsinki, recently carried 520 tons of stand-fitting materials from London to Moscow in connection with the British Industrial Exhibition being held there this month_ Pioneering a new Northern route Using rollon/roll-off ferries between Immingham and Gothenburg and Stockholm and Abo (Finland), the 26 CFI' and Bilspedition TIR semi-trailers crossed the Russo-Finnish border at Valimaar and completed the 500-mile road journey inside Russia to Moscow via Leningrad.
Planning for the journey took over a year and two important factors have emerged from this new route (the normal route is via Germany and through Poland). Journey time between loading and unloading averaged five days, while overall cost of the operation worked out cheaper than by the direct road route.