IMPORT REPERCUSSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 25716, 13 February 1946, Page 9

IMPORT REPERCUSSIONS

I DOMINION PAYS FOR SHIPS COMING IN BALLAST (P.A.) AUCKLAND, February 12. Comment on a number of matters affecting the New Zealand overseas shipping trade was made by Mr Basil Sanderson, managing director of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, and president of the International Shipping Federation, on the eve of his departure from the Dominion. Mr Sanderson will leave Auckland by flying boat to-morrow for Sydney en route to Britain. Mr Sanderson said he understood that the question of all-in contract rates would shortly be discussed between the waterfront employers and the unions in the hope of reaching some agreement. The all-in contract system is based on the principle that | the workers are given a share in the control of their industry. " The quicker we can get ships turned around the smaller the number of these vastly expensive units we shall have to build," he commented. Speaking on the effect of import restrictions on freight charges, Mr Sanderson said it was obvious that a smaller volume of outward cargo from the United Kingdom meant that more ships in ballast had to be sent to New Zealand to load homeward freights, which, therefore, had to pay for the round voyage. The refrigerated ships of his com. pany's 12_,000-ton Waiwera class had proved so successful, Mr Sanderon said, that the lino's new ships would be built on the same dimensions. The four ships now in preparation would, however, be provided with high-class accommodation for 60 or 70 passengers, compared with the 12 carried by the Waiwera class. The construction of any large liners was not imme- j diately contemplated by the company.