NEW TASMAN SERVICE

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31124, 29 July 1966, Page 10

NEW TASMAN SERVICE

S.L Inclusion Sought Provision should be made for one of the proposed transTasman roll-on cargo ships to call at Lyttelton on alternate trips, said the president of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (Mr C. W. Mace) yesterday. He was commenting on the omission of Lyttelton from the ports of call of the service, to be started by the Union Steam Ship Company in 1968. Mr Mace said that if provision was made for a Lyttelton call by the roll-on cargo ships, it would then be up to South Island shippers to ensure there was enough cargo offering to justify the service. He said that representatives of his association would be in Wellington next week. It was proposed to make an appointment with the chairman and managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company (Mr F. K. McFarlane) to express the association’s point of view. The president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce (Mr B. J. Drake) said that a great handicap in developing export trade with Australia was the uncertainty of shipping services. Two-day South Island trade, he said, was sufficient to justify at least one quarter of a regular cargo shipping service. It was hoped the shipping company would incorporate facilities for direct loading of refrigerated cargo on pallets into refrigerated holds in the ships.