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for improvement in the consultative arrangements between the docks authorities and the providers of transport, especially at national level, commented Mr. C. Bleasdale, British Railways, during the discussion on Lord Rochdale's paper at the Institute of Transport Congress in Harrogate last-week. The closest possible contact was required both on an estuarial basis and in a wider connection. Of 15 major ports, 11 were in no way linked with motorways.
Mr. C. A. Dove, general manager of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, said the weakness of the docks industry was that the return on investment had not been large enough.
Responding, Lord Rochdale said that the industry must not do its thinking in isolation but in conjunction with road, rail and the other channels concerned.