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C.I.E. May Soon Pay Its Way
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EIRE'S transport undertaking, C.I.E., is getting out of the red and may soon be paying its way without State aid. Dr. C. E. Andrews, chairman of the company, told senior executives in Dublin last week that the losses of the company for the year ended March 31 last would be under £250,000.
Last year, he recalled, losses in the order of £2,000,000 had been reduced to under £700,000.
Dr. Andrews said the reduction in losses to under £250,000 was all the more remarkable in view of the bus strike, which had cost the company £70,000. An increase in revenue of over half a million pounds was the most significant improvement.
Railway receipts were up by more than half a million pounds, he said, and more freight was carried by C.I.E. by road and rail than ever in its history.
Mr. Frank Lemass, general manager of the company, said that the Transport Act of 1958 gave C.I.E. five years to become a solvent concern, but it now looked as if they would break even before that time.
Dublin Dockers Visit Preston
A DEPUTATION of Dublin dockers' Cl representatives have visited Preston to examine the workings of the PrestonBelfast ferry service. The visit was the result of negotiations for the inauguration of a ferry service to operate between Dublin and a British port. For five years the Dublin dockers have refused to allow such a service to operate because they claim that it would lead to redundancy.
If the present negotiations are successful, a service could be started immediately, as the ramp was erected at Dublin port five years ago but was never used, due to the dockers' ban.
U.T.A. Bus Tours
LAST year 1,500 passengers were Li carried by the Ulster Transport Authority on its extended tours of Ireland, and this year it was hoped to increase that number by 20 per cent., said Mr. C. E. M. Hughes, the U.T.A. road passenger manager, recently.
He was speaking at the first run of a new luxury touring coach of a type which the U.T.A. will use on its extended tours this season. The new vehicle is an improved version of a type first introduced last year.
B.T.C. BUS RECEIPTS UP TRAFFIC receipts on London Trans-1 port's road services amounted to £4.672.000 in the four weeks to May 21 last, compared with £4,461,000 the previous year. On the provincial and Scottish buses of the British Transport Commission, receipts were £4,800,000 compared with £4,478,000 the previous year.