HUGE TONNAGE OF CARGOES
/INLY import restrictions have halted a tonnage of 1,500.000 of goods being handled at the port of Lyttelton in any one year.
Like all ports, Lyttelton’s tonnage figures are down—by about 10 per cent.—on those of 1957. The record tonnage over the wharves was 1,446,286 for 1955-56, and for 1957-58 the manifest tonnage was 1,378,895. Lyttelton is more an import
than an export port. It is the mam oil port of the South Island and it is the Dominion’s leading port for grain exports. Once it was a leading coal bunkering port and the watersiders excelled all others in their speed of coal handling. Tonnage handled in 1922 was only 658,421 tons. Fewer coastal and intercolonial vessels now trade to Lyttelton, but last year’s foreign tonnage of ships was a record at 1,410,720.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28979, 21 August 1959, Page 23
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