Shipping costs criticised
(N Z. Press Association) TAURANGA, Sept. 27. If containers were to benefit New Zealand, their use must be of value to the country’s primary producers, said the president of the Harbours’ Association (Mr R. K. Trimmer) today. “Until now the only people obtaining any benefit are the shinping companies,” he said. “They are receiving increased tonnages of cargo at increased rates per ton and they are doing the work with a fraction of the ships they used to.”
Mr Trimmer, who was opening the fourth conference of harbour engineers, at Tauranga. said that in spite of containers, freight rates had increased 28 per cent last year. “They also increased 7 per cent just recently," he said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33033, 28 September 1972, Page 16
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