Watersiders worked faster in 1985
PA Wellington Waterfront employers say watersiders improved their work output last year. • The annual stevedoring statistics of the Waterfront Industry Commission say: “Bulk cargoes unloaded showed most improvement in the rate of work, the most significant being pitch at 44.7 per cent, molasses 31.6 per cent, di-ammonium phosphate 25.9 per cent and petroleum . calcinate coke 24.7 per cent.”
The report says the overall increase in the rate of work was 8.6 per cent, and the manhours required per tonne of cargo dropped 6.2 per cent. The effect of these sav r ings was to hold costs at their 1984 levels. Ninety-five per cent of cargoes were handled at costs of less than $2O a tonne.
The total tonnage handled, other than by containers, declined 1.1 per cent, to 16,235,839 tonnes.
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