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Wool charges on new basis

(From Out Own Reporter)

WELLINGTON, September 24.

All port service charges for wool between store and ship will now be paid on a national average basis of $11.20 a 1000 kilograms, and will be paid to the shipping companies as payment agents for the wool shippers.

The system is the result of months of negotiations between wool shippers, shipping companies, and port authorities, and has been de--igned to enable the industry to cope better with containerisation during the next three years, as well as reduce the huge amount of paperwork involved in transporting wool under the old system.

It is believed that the new' system will eventually be applied to other com-! modifies.

The national average basic payment will apply to all seven wool-selling centres which are also ports; but wool sold at Wanganui will be subject to extra railage costs as well as the average! basic price, because Wanga-' nui is no longer an inter-1 national port.

The costs of getting wool' from store to ship have ini the past been borne in part: by the shippers (the woolbuyers) and in part by the shipping companies. Under this system, the buyers were; faced with paying a vast number of very small accounts to different parties; — the harbour boards, i stevedoring companies, road : carriers, railways, and dump; store — which created a! great deal of costly paper-; work and was unsuitable for! use in containerisation. Only 15 to 20 per cent of • wool exported goes by con-1 tainers now, but it is ex-1 pected that as much as 70 per cent will be so shipped! within 30 months.

The different parties considered it absurd to work the charges under a system designed for conventional shipping when, within such a short period, only a small percentage could be shipped conventionally. It is not expected that changing the charging sys-

tern to a national average! price will alter the total cost! of transporting wool from; store to ship; and any differ-; ence between farmers’: charges because of distances] involved is considered to be! “infinitesimal.” It is also hoped that the; new system may bring some! savings in costs. If the same, charges had had to be paid' on containerised wool as on! wool shipped conventionally,! then one of the advantages; hoped for from contain-; erisation would have been! lest. The major change the new; system will entail is in the; relationship between the] shipping companies and the; harbour boards. With the shipping companies as the; sole paying agents, the har-! bour boards will now deal; only with them instead of: with the shippers.

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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33957, 25 September 1975, Page 23

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Wool charges on new basis Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33957, 25 September 1975, Page 23

Wool charges on new basis Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33957, 25 September 1975, Page 23

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