HANDUNG CARGO

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30196, 30 July 1963, Page 6

HANDUNG CARGO

Containers UsedlnlLS. (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 29., Modern cargo-handling developments had greatly impressed him in the course of his return from the International Labour Organisation conference at Geneva, the New Zealand workers' delegate to the oonference, Mr J. E. Napier, said today. At San Francisco and Honolulu he found special ships were being used to carry containers of lines of cargo between those ports. “The Matson Line has container ships which carry very little else but containers between the two ports.” said Mr Napier. “This is a very expeditious way ot handling certain produce such as the canned fruit produced in Hawaii.” Mr Napier said American ports generally seemed ahead of British in modern trends of cargo handling. The British also were applying increased mechanisation to waterfront cargo handling. Mr Napier, who is secretary of the North Island Waterfront Workers’ Association. said he had walked out of the 1.L.0. conference, with the workers’ delegates of most countries attending, over the question of South African representation.