MEAT FOR AUST.
Possibility Of Sudden Call
The Union Steam Ship Company could suddenly be required to provide space for 1000 tons of refrigerated cargo because of a shortage of mutton and beef in Australia, said the assistantgeneral manager of the company (Mr B. S. Cole).
This situation, he said, could remain as long as the effects of the Australian drought lasted. Mr Cole was addressing a seminar in Christchurch on export to Australia. Shipping companies, he said, required a reasonably constant volume of cargo to operate economically. There had been criticism in the press that there had been an appreciable loss of a mar ket for frozen cargoes, such as fish, because of a shortage of refrigerated space to Australia. But on one of the company’s ships, with 20.000 cubic feet of freezer space, only 12.000 cubic feet was used, leaving space for 200 tons of cargo.
The company had sufficient capacity to take up normal slacks in the market. When that was taken, additional space would be provided.
Mr Cole said that the company considered the trade was adequately covered.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31057, 12 May 1966, Page 17
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182MEAT FOR AUST. Press, Volume CV, Issue 31057, 12 May 1966, Page 17
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