Conventional shipping makes comeback
j PA Wellington i. The most notable feature of waterfront turn-round statistics last year was a of the recovery * of conventional shipping, f In its annual report tabled jin Parliament, the Water- , front. Industry Commission 5 said that more voyages were : made by conventional ships . in the overseas J trade, with cargo handled (rising 13 per cent to almost 3 > million tonnes. '. The increase was predomiInantly in the Singapore,
Malaysia, and India trade, which includes the Persian Gulf, and was mainly caused by increased exports to that area, the report said. Bulk cargo carriers made more voyages than in the previous year but handled about the same quantity of cargo — 5.1 million tonnes. The commission said that container-shipping activity levelled out, the number of voyages and cargo quantity being similar to the previous year. '
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