Door-to-door ferry service
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• A door-to-door collection and delivery service for customers without their own transI port is to be part of the facilities offered by a new Norfolk Line roll-on /roll-off ferry. The 1,400-ton Duke of Holland, which will go into service late in December or early in January, will make two crossings every 24 hours, leaving Great Yarmouth at six o'clock each morning and Scheveningen, Holland, at six o'clock each evening, and will have capacity for 24 trailers and 12 passengers, plus a limited number of cares and caravans.
The Norfolk Line NM. at present operates a fleet of five coasters carrying fruit and vegetables from Scheveningen to Great Yarmouth for its parent company Superior International Ltd. isee CM July 27 1967).
To provide this door-to-door service the company has ordered 100 10-metre Con tinental trailers. The tractive units will be provided by private hauliers—Superior will continue its policy of subcontracting work to smaller operators—and the vehicles will collect goods from customers' premises and deliver direct to any destination on the Continent or in the UK, The Norfolk Line plans to build a second ship in the near future to provide for two sailings a day from each port. The Duke of Holland will take over the shipment of some of Superior's fruit and vegetables, and, when two roll-on /roll-off ferries are in service, the coasters will be taken off the route.
Mr. Leo van Heyningen, director of Superior International Ltd., told Commercial Motor that there would still be provision on the new ships for private hauliers engaged in their own work.