New freight rates by Air New Zealand

Press, 4 August 1981, Page 20

New freight rates by Air New Zealand

New freight rates, designed to put heavier cargo into the holds of aircraft flying the Tasman, have brought Air New Zealand’s Australian cargo manager to Auckland’s International Trade Fair. He is Mr Eamon Lawless, and — with Australia’s top 10 freight forwarders — he’s

chasing new business. Mr Lawless and his group toured the Australian and other pavilions at the fair, which ends on August 5, eyeing the weighty industrial equipment on display. They later met with Australian and New Zealand exporters attending the fair, for what Mr Lawless called

_ a “three-way discussion" on the new rates under which air cargo is charged by volume rather than weight. < “The new rates mean big business for all of us so it made sense to get together to talk over the ins and outs,” he said.

“Freight forwarders can now make up pallet loads of smaller consignments in their own stores, thereby making better use of the space in the container, and we are able to make better use of our aircraft lifting capacity by packing more into the hold." Mr Lawless said Air New Zealand and Qantas see the new system as a much needed shot in the arm for air cargo. “With these new tariffs we will see a dramatic increase in our cargo loadings — which run about 35 per cent below capacity at this time of the year.”