Demurrage System Advantageous to Trade and Industry
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SPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Road Haulage Association North Western (western) area at Liverpool last Friday, Mr. G. Litton, area chairman, said that the RHA generally felt that a properly applied demurrage system was just as much an advantage to trade and industry in general as he hoped
it would be to the Association. The possibility of having to pay because he kept a vehicle standing by unnecessarily must surely impress upon the trader or manufacturer that he would be better off if he turned the vehicle round quickly.
Our real desire, said Mr. Litton, was to have our vehicles back rather than a demurrage payment. The more productive mileage we could get from those vehicles the more efficient and economical would our services be.
Very sensibly the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board had introduced a new scale of charges which would make it less of an advantage to the importer to have his goods taking up valuable space, went on Mr. Litton. This new scale of charges was nothing more or less than a form of demurrage.
"Naturally we in the RHA welcome the new move," he said, "as we welcome any steps which are taken to make more space available for the rapid receiving and discharging of vehicles.