Tankers all at sea?
>A Whangarei Supertankers had arrived at Whangarei with no navigational charts exeept a shop atlas, said the chairman of the Northland Harbour Board (Mr J. Carney) yesterday. Discussing a suggestion that tanker lanes be established off 'the New Zealand coast, he said. “Tanker lanes would not be much use when half the tankers don’t even have a
chart. Half of them arrive with an atlas and don’t even know where they are.”
One incredulous board member asked Mr Carney if he was “having them on.”
Mr Carney: We, have had ships arrive here with the atlas you can buy in a shop and these are tankers with oil in them. Not 20,000 or 30,000-tonne tankers: these are huge crude tankers. With those sort of an-
tics going On how can you expect tanker lanes to work?
The Assistant Harbourmaster (Captain J. Kirkham) said overseas tankers had arrived in New Zealand waters with tremendous navigational equipment on board.
“But they don’t know hoW to use it and they don’t even bother to use it,” he said. “You can’t police that and you can’t police tanker lanes.”
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