Lamb reaches Iran

Press, 10 January 1981, Page 6

Lamb reaches Iran

PA Wellingtgi Ttie. season’s first ...gupplj of' New Zealand lamb t< Iran is.. now being unloadec at the port of Bandar Abba; lat the mouth of the Persiar Gulf. The 4000-tonne shipment, valued at $lO million, is the first of 70,000 tonnes of lamb valued at’ more than $l6O million, which the Meat Board has contracted to supply to Iran this season. The marketing manager for the Meat Board’s agent, Thomas Borthwick and Sons, Ltd, Mr Brian Freeman, said, yesterday that Bandar

in Abbas \vas not near .the fighting feetween Iran and ly. Iraq, The Mandama, char:<y fertd the Blue Port Line, idihad begun* unloading fthe! is i lamb shipment two days n ago. Mr Graeme Harrison, mari,:keting manager of . the . Meat s: Board, said that this season njwas likely to be a record t,one for lamb exports, with a i-'projected kill of 30 million ! lambs valued about $BOO rjmillion. * :, Of this total, 110,000 i , j tonnes was destined for Iran i ,land Iraq if the supply op- ; rations were taken up by New 1

Zealand. Other Middle East destinations such as Saudi Arabia would receive 20,000 tonnes.

>1 The European Economic I Community, including Britain, was the biggest market, with more than 210,000 tonnes of lamb to be exported there this season. North! America would take about 25,000 tonnes and Japan,' 15,000 tonnes. i I This season’s lamb kill; was expected to be more! than five million above the ; number killed two years' ago. Last season 27.2 million, 1 ' lambs had been killed.