Ro-in in the Med
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ARE ROLL-ON/OFF ferry ser likely to expand and impro\ the Mediterranean and cc quently attract internatil operators from Britain?
This was one of the ques1 which came up at Roro '83 International Conference an: hibition on Marine Tram using Roll-on/Roll-off met: (next year the Conference w held in Nice — May 9-11).
Since most papers cor the sea aspects, CM did nc tend in '83 but we have obte: copies of two papers, which extracts are condensed. The answer tc expansion question is yes, I is affected by political cons ations, notably so for Syria and Iran.
"National policies are in r ways rigged to hamper roll roll-off traffic," Dr Erwin Bai member of an IRU we party, told the conference instanced varying maxii legal gross vehicle wei leading to tedious Cusl clearance, meaning that vet can be delayed for several d
Drivers, he said, have to s between one hour and SE days on a ferry. In his own I try, West Germany, he wa one trade union — OTV — ferry time to be consii working time. Consequen disembarking driver woul entitled to eight hours rest.
On ferries to Africa, he freight traffic reservation: liable to be cancelled in on give priority to tourist trade The loading of trailers criticised in his paper by D. Carr, of SpanSet Marine, shire.
The expansion of the haul ro-ro mode has mad tam n vital standards virtual possible to maintain, he sal "Ashore, trailer load: usually be stowed and se with some knowledge of at work during highway port. But rarely is there an E dation that these are at doubled at sea and of a pletely different character.'
He added: "My view i traditional shipowner liat have become an unreasc expectation. The erni should rest with the con; or consignor who will be ised heavily if he is effei responsible for consignin! allowing it to be consignef for the forces likely to L countered between dep and arrival."