SPEED-UP IN CARGO HANDLING
Figures For New Zealand
illy I'eli’araph — Press Association.' AUCKLAND, August 5. The"year 1942 has been a record for the quantity of cargo and supplies handled in New Zealand, said the chairman of the Waterfront Control Commission, Mr. R. E. Price, in a luncheon address to the chamber of commerce today. He said that in the year before the establishment of waterfront commissions the average time spent by ships on the New Zealand coast was 35 days. Now the average time was 15.4 days.
This saving of 20 days had been effected in three ways: seven days were saved by reduction in the number of ports of call and eight days by round-the-clock working; the time taken for cargo handling had been speeded up five days on an average by the operations of the co-operative contract system, which had proved beneficial to every section of industry and to the war effort generally. Costs of cargo handling compared favourably with the costs in earlier years, he said.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 4
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169SPEED-UP IN CARGO HANDLING Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 4
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