Shipping News Empty containers boost port figures

Press, 20 April 1979, Page 20

Shipping News Empty containers boost port figures

Empty containers ac-t icounted for increased hand-) I ling at the Cashin Quay con-j . tainer terminal during J March. The operations manager at[ the terminal (Mr W. A. Sid- j' dal!) described the situation[ as satisfactory at yesterday’s > i meeting of " the Lyttelton [ < Harbour Board's port de-! velopment committee. i] The total exchange for thel month was 2352 containers ; with three of four vessels re-11 cording above-average fig-[ ■ ures. he said. “However, the increase ! (Over the berth was mainly . I empty containers and the) [LCL (less than container I I load) position is still verydepressed,” he said. During March 544 con- ; : tainers were washed; 1467 'moved in and out by road ’ and rail and LCL containers ' numbered 118. “The present forecast of I volumes across the berth fori the month of April is ex-i pected to fall short of the) March figure but May shouldsee an improvement in the! import situation,” said Mr> Siddall. Waterside labour shortages were experienced on 12 of, he 24 vessels using conventional labour between March 13 and April 9. the board’s traffic manager (Mr D. A. Jones) reported. He said the shipment of 5000 tonnes of coke for Australia taken this week by the Iron Baron will be followed, by the Iron Arnhem with .

I another 5000 tonnes on April i [25-26. _ [ I The new Cook Strait rail-1 i ferry planned for introduc-! [tion by 1981 will cost SIBM [The vessel will be similar to j [the present Arahanga, carry-! ; ing only freight and private I cars. I Naval architects have re-' ported that passenger ac« [ comtnodation and services [ account for 25 per cent of the cost of a new vessel and' [the elimination of this on thei .new fdrry will . make her! S6M cheaper than the Ara-! [ hanga. i This view was recently [submitted by the Nelson-{ based TNL Group interested in running a jetfoil service across Cook Strait. today. Union Lyttelton, Dunedin, todav Coastal Trader. Dunedin. April 23, i Han o.t‘ ® awit ' ka > Tauranga, April VESSELS IN PORT jHanka Sawieka. Cashin Quay No. i Rolle D, No. 2 East. [Holmdale, No. 3 East. : Khudozhnik Devneka, No 3 i West. ARRIVALS , Nolle D 10 a.m.>. 19,564. Nauru Island. Capt. -j. Brunton Gutlire's DEPARTURES EXPECTED ARRIVALS Union Lyttelton. Wellington, today. ■ Polesski, Bluff, today. Asakaze Marti. Bluff, April 22 Sevillan Reefer, sea. April 22. Ngapara Tauranga. April 22. .Coastal Trader. Auckland, April Heroi Senjanovic. sea. April 24. PROJECTED DEPARTURES I Khudozhnik Deyneka, Napier,