§ 39. Mr. Roy Hughesasked the Minister of Transport what steps she is taking to bring about a greater decentralisation of overseas trade in order to make greater use of the modernised South Wales ports where surplus capacity is available.
§ Mr. SwinglerThe grant scheme encourages the modernisation of facilities, but only the port authorities can sell their services to shippers and shipowners. The decentralisation of particular traffics would prevent advantage being taken of the great economies of scale made possible by modern methods, but we are glad to see that a wide variety of ports including those in South Wales, are attracting particular specialised traffics.