Shipping links review soon
fA’.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. April 13.
Conference Line shipping links between NewZealand and the United Kingdom will be reviewed soon.
Representatives of the London-based New Zealand Tonnage Committee are scheduled to meet producer board representatives in Wellington during the last week of April.
The talks are expected to examine the impact of inflation on the contract shipping links, and the technical problems being encountered with containers.
Two formal meetings are held between the shipping lines and the producer boards annually to discuss the contract services. Preliminary negotiations for the freight rates will be held in I September. The Tonnage Committee is represented in New Zealand by the Overseas Shipowners’ Committee and includes Blue Star, Port Line, Shaw Savill and Albion, P and O, the New Zealand Line, and the A.C.T./ A.N.L. container service. The container services negotiations will include Australia, and not just New Zealand, as is the case with the present conventional services.
Eighty per cent of New Zealand’s refrigerated exports of dairy and meat products will be shipped by container to the United Kingdom in 1979.
Two big shipping consortiums —O.C.L. (comprising P and O, Shaw Savill and the New Zealand Shipping Corporation) and A.C.T. (Blue Star and Port Lines) —will provide the container services.
Early indications are that there will be a moderate increase in contract shipping rates to the United Kingdom this year. It is unlikely that it will be higher than the 1974 increase of 17.59 per cent, but it is expected to be higher than last year’s 7.49 per cent increase.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34130, 17 April 1976, Page 7
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