DRASTIC CHANGES IN WHARF WORK FORECAST
Some drastic changes would be recommended in a report by the producer boards’ shipping utilisation committee, said Mr A. A. Macfarlane, the chairman, to the Lyttelton Harbour Board yesterday. The report was expected to be ready in February. ‘‘There has been no indication of the measures, except the possibility of shift work on the wharves,” he said. Mr Macfariane was reporting on a visit by shipping company executives, two of them from London. to
discuss some matters to be i dealt with in the report. “I am all for the quicker ■ turn-round of ships, but there I
is a problem with shift woii,” said Mr W. B. Laing. “There will have to be a lot of changes outside the waterfront.” During the war the wharves worked shifts, but there was still a bottleneck in the city, where tire railway sheds became congested and warehouses shut their doors at 5 p.m, Mr Laing said. “There will have to be drastic changes all round,” said Mr Macfarlane. The average stay of ships
on the New Zealand coast was 62 days, and they were working cargo for only about 6 per cent of that time.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 27
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