[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port and City of London].

  • London (England). Port & City Council.
Date:
1977
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port and City of London]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/53 (page 14)
    M.V. OLAU KENT TILBURY CONTAINER SERVICES The year has been one of growth in the number of new container services attraced to the Tilbury Container Terminals, although no new container berths became operational during the year. The number of container vessels arriving at Tilbury compared favourably with the arrivals during the previous year, slight variations on particular services can be noted from the statistical summary of arrivals for 1975/76. During 1976, the following container services commenced regular operations to the United Kingdom through Tilbury:— March 1976 SAFMARINE Serving South Africa April GLE LINE Serving USA/Canada May RECON Serving Red Sea July BALT-ATLANTIC Serving USA East Coast November ELLERMANS Serving South Africa December CAROL Serving Caribbean Area GLE. Great Lakes & European Lines Inc. This service brought into being the first direct container link between the Great Lakes ports of Detroit and Chicago, and the Canadian ports of Toronto and Montreal, with Europe, through Tilbury and Amsterdam. Five new German Flag vessels were chartered to maintain this service across the North Atlantic via the Saint Lawrence Seaway; all the vessels being identical and of modern design, each capable of carrying ap proximately 195 T.E.U's. Of these, 25 containers can be refrigerated. 14