Non-conference line gets nod from Wool Board

Press, 8 September 1979, Page 1

Non-conference line gets nod from Wool Board

Shipping reporter The Wool Board has conditionally approved a nonconference freighting of wool from New Zealand to South Korea, by the Jebsen shipping line of Norway at below conference rates. The New Zealand manager of Jebsen’s (Mr F. Ross) said in Auckland yesterday that he had just received the letter of confirmation.

Mr Ross returned from Korea on Thursday but declined to elaborate on the Wool Board’s decision until he had first replied to the board.

Negotiations were carried out by Tranzpacific Container Services, of Auckland, a freight consulting firm for Jebsen’s. Mr Ross said that his company’s first ship, the Spraynes, would be in New Zealand later this month. The ship would call at. Auckland, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Mount Maunganui, and would be followed every 26 days by a

Jebsen’s bulk carrier. Mr Ross said that the Jebsen vessels could be scheduled to call at the wool auction centres in New Zealand with reason-

able cargo inducements. He said that the company specialised in the carrying of certain types of bulk cargoes, and had serviced New Zealand -for a long time. Aluminium from the Tiwai smelter at Bluff had been loaded regularly. “We will be able to carry dry and refrigerated container cargoes as well as the products we are already known for, with the added advantage of having our own shipboard gantry cranes,” Mr Ross said. Freight rates would be

negotiated with individual shippers for the new service to offer cargo trans- | port at competitive rates for the Japanese and Korean markets. The Spraynes already has 1400 tonnes of plywood booked by Fletcher Merchants for the first northbound trip from Lyttelton. Mr J. A. McPhail, general manager of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, and the container terminal manager (Mr P. G. Morgan) held discussions in Auckland earlier this week about the new service.