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From a Special correspondent • Increases of as much as 56 per cent— and an average increase of 34 per cent—in transport costs to most German manufacturers are forecast following an investigation into the effects of the German Minister ol Transport's plan to switch large quantities of goods traffic from road to rail.
The study, revealed last week at a conference of the Action Committee for Traffic Rationalization (ARV), was undertaken by Germany's Divo Institute of ManagemenI and Social Research and Applied Mathematics. It shows that the prohibition on bulk road transport (which is to apply from July 1970) and the increased taxes on long. distance haulage—as set out in the Germar Transport Bill which is due to be confirmec by Parliament in March this year—wil