SHIPPING OF TIMBER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19700, 29 January 1926, Page 9

SHIPPING OF TIMBER

CONVEYANCE ON DECK. SUGGESTED NEW REGULATIONS. (Preu Association —Br Telognph—Copyright, i LONDON, January 27. The report of the Merchant Shipping Advisors' Committee, representing all shipping interests both of the owners and men, shows that the meeting was presided over by Sir Norman Hill, who recommends the Board of Trade to abandon the prohibition of carrying timber on deck in winter, except light wood goods, and the formulation of new regulations based on the views that modem vessels of suitable type can carry deck cargoes of both heavy and. light wood goods safely all the year round, if safeguards are imposed. The committee also recommends the board to take steps to secure an early international agreement with regard to such safeguards, and that the new regulations do not operate until it is ascertained, within a reasonable time, •whether international uniformity is attainable. The committee points out that the present conditions are a handicap to British cargo ships in competition for the world’s timber carrying trade, as it is a known fact that about 95 per cent of the ships bringing timber to Great Britain are foreign.—Reuter.