Shipping body angry

Press, 10 March 1984, Page 9

Shipping body angry

PA Auckland The Shipping Corporation said , yesterday that it is angry and confused that the Meat Board has laid down restrictions on the amount of meat the corporation can ship to the United States. The corporation’s chairman,. Mr H. L. Julian, said that the line had just reorganised its North America shipping services, one of the main aims being to gain meat custom from New Zealand and Australia. He said that the Australian Meat and Livestock

Corporation had given the corporation unrestricted access to the carriage of its cargo, but the New Zealand Board had decided it would allocate enough meat to be carried by just one of the three ships the corporation will have in the service. Mr Julian said the corporation found it difficult to understand why it should be restricted in this way when the Meat Board had already given rival overseas lines unrestricted access to New Zealand meat cargoes. The chairman of the Meat

Board, Mr Adam Begg, has said that the New Zealand Caribbean would be the only designated meat carrier within the corporation’s new three-ship service, because the American west-coast service was already serviced by the Blue Star Line and Columbus Line.

In making the decision, he said, the board had taken into account its longstanding policy of matching the ship capacity to cargo availability. Mr Julian said the corporation intended to take up the matter with the board.