Hauliers' Group Seeks to Reduce Dock Delays
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MAINLY a haulage contractors' group, 10/B13 Group Organizers, Liverpool, has taken up with the D.T.O. the question of delays to vehicles carrying goods to the Liverpool docks for shipment overseas. It is pointed out that,. apart froth the inconvenience which results from the delay in the clearing of vehicles, their detention while waiting to be lightened is particularly serious at the .present time when every ton of carrying capacity is required with the -utmost urgency.
The problem is difficult to tackle because there are so many factors tat contribute to delay. Hauliers have suggested to the steamship companies that, in order to secure the orderly and regulated flow of outward traffic, they should inaugurate a permit system,
whereby the manufacturer with goods for export must first of all secure a transit permit. This, it is suggested, will authorize the dispatch of goods on a particular day and by a particular system (road or rail). This information, collated at the port, will enable arrangements to be made for the reception of the traffic at the ship's side.
Another suggestion is that there should be better facilities. for the off
loading of vehicles. Fare too much time is wasted, so. it is stated, in waiting for the use of dock cranes and trucks.
Carriers' complaints have been passed on to the Regional Commissioner and may have had some hearing on the inspection of the traffic-handling facilities of the port by an official of the Ministry a few days ago.