New company’s manager named

Press, 27 October 1977, Page 6

New company’s manager named

The manager of a bold new stevedoring venture at Lyttelton in which watersiders have a one-third shareholding has been announced. He is Captain C. M. Anderson, at present the operations manager in Christchurch for Seabridge (N.Z.), Ltd. The new company, registered as the Lyttelton Stevedoring Company, has created an upset within an industry facing a steadily dwindling supply of conventional shipping. The carriage by container ships of an ever-increasing share of Lyttelton’s regular trade has seen a rash of take-overs and amalgamations among stevedoring companies recently in an effort to remain viable. The only two remaining apart from the wholly watersider-owned Express Stevedoring Company are Seaport Operations, Ltd, and the Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd. Both these companies can expect to have their share of [conventional shipping reduced heavily with the formation of the new company, because it will probably take over the stevedoring of most of the ships represented by G. H. Scales, Ltd. Scales has a one-third shareholding in the new

company and acts as agents for about 80 ships a year calling at Lyttelton. The remaining one-third shareholding in the new company is shared equally between the Mac Kay Shipping Company, of Auckland, and the Bay of Plenty Stevedoring Company, of Mount Maunganui. The Lyttelton venture comes after a similar enterprise launched in Auckland earlier this year. Captain Anderson said yesterday that other joint ventures with other waterside worker unions were in the pipeline at other ports. “Eventually we hope to have a nation-wide service,” he said. Captain Anderson was born and educated in Christchurch. He went to sea as a deck boy in the Mahia in 1942 and in 1953 joined the Northern Steam Ship Company, Ltd. In 1955, he took his extra master’s ticket and in 1962 became a director of the Kaiapoi Shipping Company which, at the time, was rfunning the Tuhoe and the Toa. In 1965, he joined the infant New Zealand Stevedoring and Wharfingering Company as a supervisor, where he remained until its amalgamation with the Owens group.