WHARF FACILITIES
SHIPPING OPINION
POSITION AT AUCKLAND
The urgency of the need for a quick turnround of overseas shipping is aa fully recognised by local representatives of the shipping companies as by the Government and the harbour \ authorities; but questions of equip- | ment and appliances and lay-out of ! the wharves have also to be taken ! into full consideration. ' From in--1 quiries made by "The Post" on this ; point of equipment ' and lay-out, especially of the port of Auckland, and mechanical cargo-handling facilities, it was learned that the shipping companies have always welcomed, any improvement that could be made in such facilities. The cranes have been always used to their fullest extent. At the shipping companies' suggestion, some years ago, the Harbour Board put in a conveyer for loading- butter which the shipping companies endeavoured to use, but it was eventually turned down by the labour. "The main trouble in Auckland," 'The Post" was informed, "is in the placing of the sheds on the wharves. The double line of sheds leaves too little room between shed and ship for sufficient railway lines to shunt out empties without removing the full rake of wagons. If the wharves were altered by pulling down the double sheds and erecting wide sheds down the centre of the wharf into which lorries could be taken to load and unload with the aid of overhead electric travelling cranes there would be sufficient room between shed and ship for three railway tracks and a cartway and with this room tractors and trailers could be operated to advantage." One of the handicaps at present was said to be that a peace-time Dominion award limits the weight of slings to much less than the cranes and ships* gear are capable of, and under the present urgent state of things these limitations should be removed.
There are also many other peacetime conditions in the Dominion award which, the shipping authorities are convinced, should be relaxed to enable the work to be speeded up.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 10, 13 January 1941, Page 6
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332WHARF FACILITIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 10, 13 January 1941, Page 6
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