§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give 265W an estimate of the proportion of total cargoes moving through major stated docks in the United Kingdom which is subject to containerisation; and to what extent the information available to him indicates that this is a growing trend.
§ Mr. Peyton:I have been asked to reply.
Container and roll-on traffic accounted for about 15 per cent. of total goods traffic, excluding fuels, through British ports in 1970. Details are given in the National Ports Council's publications "Digest of Port Statistics 1971" and "Container/roll-on port statistics Great Britain 1971, part 1 ". The growth in unitised traffic is expected to continue.