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Shipping News

Inserted letter mav cost dear

The incorrect use of one letter i in some shipping documents is | j reported to have caused a ! 539,000 disputed claim between ' j the Customs Department and a! I banking group. The $39,000 sum is the duty , payable on three tonnes of prei printed travellers’ cheques which | were consigned from England to I Christchurch. The letter L was inserted in the documents. making the official forms read “blank” paper instead of “bank” paper. Because the v rongly declared “blank” paper arrived with pre printing, a heavy duty is payable on the huge quantity of cheques Another error, described as ; physical, has caused a $5OOO insurance ciaim at Lyttelton. Accounts presented at a recent meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board showed a claim by Blueport fN'.Z.i, Ltd, for $5OOO from the board. The board’s general manager (Mr J. A. McPhaili said that the claim had been caused by the failure to clip a refrigeration unit to a container. The fault was physical, rather than mechanical, and would be met by insurance. M & Uncertain times in oserseas shipping have been indicated by two significant developments < recently. Lloyd’s Register of Shipping | has been advised of the cancellation of two roll-on cargo ferries by a large Swedish shipowning group. Bostroms. The company had commissioned nine ferries to be built by Mitsui of .Japan, but have i cancelled two of the nine orders ■ The Bibby Line, a well-known' i tramp-steamer group based in i Liverpool, has sold off freighters! I to improve its shaky finances. ! | The company has been! I offered a loan moratorium by

the British Government to keep it afloat, and is the first to be considered for help under a scheme launched by the Trade Secretary, Mr Dell. Overseas reports Indicate that other companies receiving help are Stag Line, Turnbull Scott, and London and Overseas Freighters. Reardon Smith Shipping recently reported having made similar arrangements privately. ARRIVALS Saturday Union Lyttelton <6 46 am . 4500. Dunedin, Capt. G. J. Tedd (U.S.S.I. H.M.N.Z.S. Malkato <7.55 am , Capt. T. L. S, B Bradley. Ngakuta <8.26 am. 4376, Tauranga, Capt J. M. Evans 1U.5.5.1. Sunday U.S.N Knorr <2.3* p.m..<, Antarctic. DEPARTURES Saturday Vishva Mahima <12.33 p.m. - 6097, Wellington. Capt. J Verahese (Dalgetyi. Sunday Union Lyttelton <7.11 a m 4300. Wellington, Capt. S. J Tedd. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Kolle D. Nauru, today. Southland Star, Suva, today. Coastal Trader. Auckland, today. PROJECTED DEPARTURES H.M.N.Z.S. Waikato, Smares today. Mlnetama Maru. sea, today. Southland Star, Wellington, today. VESSELS IN PORT I Coastal Ranger, No. 2 West Minetama Maru, No 7 West. | Toa Moana. No. 6 West. ■ Ngakuta, No. 4 West ' H.M.N.Z.S. Waikato. No. 3 East. '■ U.S.N. Knorr, No. 4 East.

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Press, 6 November 1978, Page 14

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Shipping News Press, 6 November 1978, Page 14

Shipping News Press, 6 November 1978, Page 14