Bad news for freight talks
(N.Z.PA. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 6.
The background mood to the next round of Anglo-New Zealand shipping freight rate talks took a turn for the worse yesterday with reports that the South African wool shipping rate will rise by 12| per cent.
The reports circulated here as New Zealand delegates to next week’s wool freight rate talks in London were preparing for departure to the United Kingdom. The talks will be the first held involving representatives
of a New Zealand producer board and the British Conference Lines since the lines announced their decision not to proceed with the planned United Kingdom-New Zealand container service.
Sir John Acland, leader of the New Zealand delegation to the talks, said he believed a rise of above 10 per cent had been imposed on the South African wool trade. He declined to comment on the extent of the rise but said British and European woolbuyers had expressed concern at the possibility of a further rise in freight rates. The New Zealand talks will open in London next Thursday.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32626, 7 June 1971, Page 12
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