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-IE DUTCH ROAD transport industry is planning a powerful sales omotion exercise directed at manufacturers and shippers in eitain.
Culminating in "Dutch -ansport Days" from June 14, which will take place in anchester and Sheffield, the ur is attracting many wellown road haulage operators Dm the Netherlands, including ose who already have links ith British customers, and hers specialising in tank ;ulage and the movement of ;avy indivisible loads.
This follows earlier successful -esentations in Portugal (1981) id Austria (1982).
The event is organised by the itch National Road Haulage ;sociation in conjunction with e Netherlands-British iamber of Commerce in anchester. Operators will ing their own display material id literature which will be .ailable at the meetings ranged at the Britannia Hotel, anchester, and Cutler's Hall, ieffield.
Accompanied by the Dutch mister of Transport, the esentations will include ieeches by CBI presentatives, the distribution anager of Shell Chemicals K), and others reflecting Dutch id British points of view. nvever, the main object of the ur is to enable the Dutch irticipants to strengthen, and tablish new, contacts with itish industry. Two weeks before the Dutch visit to the UK, Freight Show Europe will open in Rotterdam (May 31-June 3) with a broad panorama of all sectors of European Transport.
Participation by domestic enterprises will again predominate in an event which has grown in stature over the past few years, underlining the traditional view of the Dutch as the "hauliers of Europe".
Another important date for operators concerned with ports traffic and container services is the third Terminal Operations Conference and Exhibition to be held at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam from June 14-17. Subjects covered range from new methods of handling container traffic to ro-ro practice and will, in many cases, be highly relevant to efficient road haulage operation.
Exhibits supporting the terminal operations theme will be displayed by over 60 manufacturers. Full details of the Amsterdam event may be obtained from CSP Ltd, MacMillan House, 54 Cheam Common Road, Worcester Park, Surrey; tel: 01-330 3911.