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E1.8m Mossend grant
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Scottish haulier Peter D Stirling has won a 1.8m freight facilities grant to upgrade Its dlhead at Mossend, near Glasgow. The move expected to remove more than a million rry miles a year from Scottish roads,
Improvements to Stirling's 75-acre Ilmplex will include new reads and containerandling equipment; the project is due to be smpleted within six months.
Managing director Billy Stirling says:With te Working Time Directive coming in, I would ke to think we will make the transfer from and to rail easier. The container-handling Nifty we bought a few years ago does up to 20 containers a day we're going to be doing between 35 and 105 a day."
Stirling only has a dozen vehicles of Its own; most freight arriving and leaving the terminal by road is handled by other hauliers.
The FFG was awarded by the Scottish Executive, which plans to remove 21 million lorry miles a year from Scottish roads by March 2003.
The executive has also awarded £158,000 to rail operator EWS to redevelop the Beattock sidings in Dumfriesshire for timber transport; Supermarket chain Asda received £75,000 to develop a rail-freight facility at Grangemouth.