CHEAPER COLD STORAGE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 5

CHEAPER COLD STORAGE

NEW RATES AT TRAFFORD Px\RK STORES.

Tho Trafford Park Cold Storage, Ltd., adjoining tho Manchester Docks, put new rates into force on 3rd April, Bays tho "Guardian." Ono objtct of this new arrangement is to meet the demand for cheaper cold storage, so that larger stocks of frozen meat and other perishable produce can bo held in Britain. Another is to induce importers to use Manchester for their bulk stock* and as their distributing centre for the North of England. For receiving traffic into tho Trafford Park Stores, with ono week's rent and delivery to rail or roa<3, the charge will bo 12s per ton, as compared with the existing minimum charge in force at all cold stores in the country of 2&s per ton. In addition, the charges from alongside ship in the Manchester Docks to the Trafford Park Cold Stores can, as a^rulo, be merged in the new rale of 12s per ton. The now rent charge at the Trafford Park Cold Stores after tho first week will be 3s 6d per ton per week, which means, for example, that the charge on traffic in store for 12 weeks will bo 60s 6d per ton, as compared with the present charge generally in forco at all cold stores of 78s per ton. Ml traffic which is delivered direct ex ship at the Manchester Docks to Trafford Park railway vans, and for which forwarding instrjctions are available upon landing, will not be charged storage rates, but will bo delivered by rail or road ex Cold Store, Trafford Park, at tho same rate chargeable for delivery ex Quay Shed at the Manchester Docks.