§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list all the regular shipping services from United Kingdom ports to ports within the European Economic Community; and if he will give for each the number of passengers, the number of vehicles and the tonnage of freight carried on each service during 1972.
§ Mr. Michael HeseltineThis information is not compiled by my Department but much of it can be found in the following publications.
- Passenger and car ferry services—ABC Shipping Guide.
- Container and roll-on/roll-off services (a)— Freight Industry Year Book.
- Numbers of passengers carried (b)—Digest of Port Statistics Section V.
- Tonnages of freight (b)—Digest of Port Statistics Section IV.
- Numbers of road goods vehicles and of accompanied cars (b)—Container and Roll-on Port Statistics.
- (a) These comprise most of the regular services between the United Kingdom and other EEC countries. Others can be identified from the record of sailings published in Lloyd's Loading List.
- (b) The latest figures, for 1971, contained in the 1972 editions of these publications of the National Ports Council, are analysed so far as possible by United Kingdom port and foreign country. Figures for individual services cannot generally be published without breach of commercial confidence.