FREIGHT RATES TO AUSTRALIA
INCREASE HELD INEVITABLE SYDNEY, October 2. Further increases in shipping freight rates were forecast in Sydney last night by the chairman of the Overseas Shipping Representatives’ Association (Mr J. H. Conde). The reasons, he said, are:— A £3,750,000 annual increase in the cost of wharf labour in Australian -ports since April. . A 100 per cent, increase m Commonwealth light dues on the net registered tonnage of vessels. bulk of the revenue for light dues is paid by overseas shipowners.) Increases in “many other” lte p?s of ship’s expenditure in Australia. Mr Conde said that shipping companies will be able to modify the inevitable” freight increases if the waterside workers obey the new Australian award. -
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28089, 3 October 1956, Page 16
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