Plans for port cost reductions
PA Auckland The Auckland Harbour Board is studying ways of reducing the cost of handling containers by about $2O each, the Harbours’ Association conference was told.
The board’s general manager, Mr R. T. Lorimer, said that costs in Auckland were too high. “We are seeking greater economies of scale, more efficiencies in labour strengths and overheads, and generally improved facilities to attract shipowners,” he said. Mr Lorimer said that in the past the board might not have provided enough mechanical equipment on the waterfront, but new and larger equipment would be
bought. Delegates voted to ask the Ministry of Transport to review the adequacy of navigational aids near harbours.
The Auckland board said that, in spite of repeated accidents at Shearer Rock in the approaches to the port, the Ministry had declined to install a lighted buoy which once marked the hazard. The association also wants the Government to bear the cost of incinerating ships’ rubbish where quarantinable garbage has to be burnt according to the law.
It was said that the Australian Government bears such costs in that country.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840310.2.161
Bibliographic details
Press, 10 March 1984, Page 29
Word Count
185Plans for port cost reductions Press, 10 March 1984, Page 29
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in