Shipping news
4000 seamen unemployed
Unemployment among British seafarers is expected to reach 5000 before Christmas, according to the General Council of British Shipping. This would represent, by far, the highest total of unemployed since World War 11. The hardest hit in terms of numbers and the proportion out of work are ratings. Last month the council reported that about 3000 ratings and 700 officers were reporting unemployed at. merchant navy establishments.
. • The council also said that the worst fears of the British shipping industry — that the total merchant fleet could shrink to under 30 million tonnes (deadweight) by the end of the year — are likely to be realised by the end of this year. In August alone the British flag fleet fell to just over 32 million tonnes and lost another 17 vessels totalling 600.000 tonnes. This means that the fleet has been reduced by over a third in the last five and a half years. New Zealand uses a different system, according to the South Island secretary of the Seamen’s Union (Mr T. B. Stuart), as the policy is not to replace leaving seamen. Nevertheless, the union currently has a waiting list of about 480 applications from qualified ratings. ARRIVALS Coastal Trader (6.56 a.m.) 2500, Dunedin (S.C.N.Z.). Union Hobart (1.46 p.m.) 4376, Wellington (U.M.S.). Messiniaki Idea (8.30 p.m.) 17,718, Wellington (U.M.S.). DEPARTURES Coastal Trader (1.10 p.m) 2500, Auckland (S.C.N.Z.). Euplecta (3.30 p.m.) 19,763, ' Wellington (Dalgety). Poyang Career (6.15 p.m.) 9550, Australia (Seatrans). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Jervis Bay, Auck, 9.30 a.m. today (Cashin Quay No. 3). Amokura, Marsden Pt, 3 p.m. today (Oil Wharf). Krill, sea, tomorrow. Allied Pioneer, Nagoya, tomorrow. Daeyang Prosperity, Japan, tomorrow. Vortex Skipper, N Plym. tomorrow. Union Hobart, W'gtn, Nov 28. Botany Triumph, Kurnell. Nov 28. General Valdez, Nahodka, Nov 29. Coastal Trader. Auck. Nov 30. Daiei Maru No. 5. Aust. Nov 30. Union Hobart, Dndn. Dec 1.
Coastal Trader. Dndn. Dec 2. Nile Maru, Dndn. Dec 2Polessk. Nap. Dec 4. Waitaki. W'gtn, Dec 4. Marama. Dndn. Dec 5. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Union Hobart. Wgtn, today. Messiniaki Idea, Pl Stanvac, today. Amokura. Marsden Pt, tomorrow. Allied Pioneer, Wgtn, Nov 28. Krill, sea, Nov 28. Union Hobart, Dndn, Nov 29. Jervis Bay. Jeddah, Nov 29. Coastal Trader, Dndn, Nov 30. Vortex Skipper, Tim, Nov 30. Daiei Maru No. 5, sea, Dec 1. Union Hobart, Wgtn, Dec 1. Daeyang Prosperity, Korea, Dec ‘l. Coastal Trader, Auck. Dec 2. Nile Maru, Japan. Dec 3. Holmdale. Chathams and Pitt Is, Dec 4. Waitaki, Sydney, Dec 4. Marama, Auck, Dec 5. VESSELS IN PORT Holmdale, No. 7 East. W. H. Orbell, No. 7 East. Ngamotu, Dry Dock. Messiniaki Idea, Oil Wharf. Union Hobart, Gladstone Pier.
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