Barge plan
LN Z. Press Association} GISBORNE, November 7. The Dillingham Corporation, the largest tug and barge operator in the world, is interested in starting a tug and barge coastal service in New Zealand if it can get assurances that the Railways Department will not undercut its prices. This is stated in a letter which was before the Gisborne Harbour Board. The letter was sent by the corporation to the Harbours Association, and the association will discuss it in Auckland on Thursday. “Our parent company has always felt that the major ! reason for not proceeding with a service is the Railway’s Department taking over business at unfair and uneconomic prices,” the letter says.
The company would be able to start a service quickly with hired plant, but because of company policy, and partly because of its interests in Whangarei Engineering and Construction, Ltd, the hired plant would be replaced with equipment built in New Zealand. The company would welcome New Zealand capital in the venture.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33068, 8 November 1972, Page 27
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