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U Linkrpan Reaching out to Tasmanex rterci and shi James Bryant Essentially, the pages of Linkspan are shipping industry to our overseas We believe that New Zealand exporters customer-oriented and, it is to enable us markets. and, in fact, shippers on both sides of the to communicate with a wide readership of o Recognition ofthe need to keep shippers Thsman will find news and views of much exporters and shippers that we are linking up-to-date with trends and developments ,interest in this, the first issue of the Union our magazine into the pages of the in shipping and in the transport field Shipping Groups company magazine to Exporter. generally. appear in the Exporter. I'm sure you will look forward to reading Linkspan, the quarterly magazine Our reasons for wanting to communicate regularly about us in the Linkspan pages published by Union Shipping Group and effectively with a wider spectrum of export- of the Exporter. its subsidiaries, is scheduled to appear in minded customers include: the March, June, September and December o The steady growth of transtasman trade - James Bryant issues of the Exporter. It contains a wide links, with the advent of the Closer General Manager, variety of items on the shipping industry Economic Relations agreement between Commercial Division and of Union Shipping's activities, Australia and New Zealand. Union Steam Ship particularly. o The importance of sea transport and the Company of NZ Ltd turMhon Customers and shipping industry fiends otthe Union Steam Ship Company hod a gull's eye view of Sydney Hq.rbour's annual Ferrython spectacle in January. They were the guests aboard a cabin cruiser of Unian Company agents in Australia, Union Bulkships, for the now interuationally known harbour race for Sydney's passenger ferries. The picture shows hosts and guests watching the Ferrython's progress aboard the chartered craft Janthe. The ferries are all sponsored by commercial otganisations and the 1986 Ferrython was won by the l,ady McKell. Hong Kong course on transport management The general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company's programme studied Hong Kong's urban transport system in detail commercial division, James Bryant, has been attending a five- and also visited mainland China's Canton Province and week international course, in Hong Kong, for senior managers surrounding districts to study transport systems in the Republic on transport management issues. o[ China. Executives from within the transport industry throughout the The course included discussions with executives specialising world, gathered in Hong Kong for the 1986 Senior Transport in transport from the Department of Transport of Hong Kong, Management Programme, co-ordinated and run by a British the University of Hong Kong\" Shell Oil International and the group, the Ashridge Centre for Transport Management. Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The programme aims to create a full exchange of ideas, Those participating in the programme visited Hong Kong's internationally, on reviewing transport industry trends and Mass Transit Corporation, the headquarters and engineering base assessing the future. of the airline Cathay Pacific, the Hong Kong Harbour Authority The course covers all modes oftransport. It is strongly case- study oriented and includes an on-the-spot study and evaluation and the Kowloon Canton. Railway. of transport problems in Hong Kong and the People's Republic \"This is a unique opportunity to study, at the international level, of China. opportunities and trends presented by the entire transport Top international transport managers attending the Ashridge industry, now and in the years ahcad.\"

Linkryan g Vital Statistics The Union Endeavour's'trital statistics\" in terms of capacity, dimensions and equipment are: . Capacity: 1024 20ft containen. . Equipment: Six 2S-tonne cranes. (Two of them can operate in tandem to lift 47-tonnes). . Semice speed: 15 knots. . Refrigerqted container points: 96 . Deadweight tonnage: 21,895. o Length: l78-metres. o Beam: 23-metres. . Draft (summer): l0.Il-metres. . General: ship is non-cellular and so can lffi non-standurd units qnd bulk carSoes. A similar vessel to Union Shipping's fint new multi-purpose carric4 Union Endeavour I m proved se ruice with new shrp The delivery next month of Union Shipping's first new multi- When the Union Rotoiti completes her re-engining, the purpose carrier, the Union Endeavour, will give the Union Steam sistership Union Rotorua will be laid up until later this year, Ship Company's transtasman liner service improved levels of when the smaller ro-ro vessel Union Sydney - chartered to service and greater flexibility. Union is returned to her owners in Europe. The 21, 895-tonne (deadweight) Union Endeavour, formerly Union would seek a second MPC-type ship to replace another the Dagmar Reeckmann, was due to be delivered to Union at chartered ro-ro ship in the Thsman trade, the Union Dunedin, Sydney by her West German owners in mid-April. later this year, he said. The 178-metre long multi-purpose ship carries up to lO24 20ft The acquisition of the fully equipped Union Endeavour ISO containers. This includes space for more than 260 represents a significant change in Union's operations. refrigerated containers. The Union Endeavour is under charter \"This is because we are moving away from the more-traditional to the Union Company. ro-ro concept to ships which provide a lift-on, lift-off service Commenting on the acquisition of Unions first multi-purpose across the Thsman. The equipment of the MPCs makes them vessel, group managing director John Keegan said: independent of shore-based linkspans and cranes - so enabling \"The entry into the Thsman trade of this new ship will enable them to service a wider range of ports.\" us to protect our market share during the remainder of the re- The Union Endeavour can handle containers, 'reefers', timber engining programme for our transtasman roll-on, roll-off ship packs and other loads, including palletised cargo, steel and Union Rotoiti.\" cargo-in-a-sling. scrap by the Huang Tu Enterprise Tandem tow Company. mainland ports and Tasmania was inaugurated in 1964 by the ships Seaway Captain Gibson, now a member of the King and Seaway Queen. This unusual sight (below) of two ocean- going tugs, stationed line-ahead towing two Peninsular Search and Rescue Squad, on ln 195:76, these ships were replaced by Port Phillip Bay, was formerly master of roll-on, roll-off ships in tandem was the Seaway Prince (4174 tons gross) and captured on film by retired Union the Seaway Prince. Seaway Princess, (4188 tons gross) Company Seaway Service master Captain The Seaway Prince and Seaway Princess specially built for the Union Company at Ted Gibson of Melbourne. were replaced in late 1983 by the Seaway the BHP shipyards at Whyalla, South His picture shows the former Seaway Hobart and Seaway Melbourne, which now Australia. Service \"ro-ro\" ships Seaway Prince and maintain Union-Australia's Hobart- The Prince and Princess, laid up at the Seaway Princess in Port Phillip Bay Melbourne-Sydney Seaway roll-on, roll-off Port of Melbourne for more than two years, (Victoria) at the start of their delivery servlce. were twin-screw, ro-ro, crane-loading voyage to Thiwan, where they are to be The Union Steam Ship Company of cargo ships powered by gas turbine/electric broken up. They have been purchased for Australia's roll-on, roll-off service between englnes.

U Linhrpan Ganterbury Gustomwood a growth cargo For almost the last eight years, the Canterbury Timber Products plant at Rangiora (North Canterbury) has been operating at full capacity - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Timber stacked at one end of the 80,000 sq.m. plant emerges from the other end as a medium density fibreboard (MDF) called Customwood, a product which, over the last l0 years, has dominated its field in New Zealand. At present it is having a major impact on overseas markets. Australia represents a significant segment of CTPIs export market for Customwood and, at present, this product is the largest growth export cargo generated from Lyttelton for the Union Steam Ship Company's transtasman roll-on, roll-off servlce. A substitute for timber, Customwood's success lies in is stability, its competitive pricing and is suitability for the production of value-added products. Unlike timbeq Customwood does not warp, split, twist or shrink. Its production Union Mqritime Services Canterbury sales manager, Malcolm Westgar.th, and the does not require high grade timber. Also, export sales manager for Canterbury Timber Products, Lindsay Reid, in front of the the use of off-cuts, waste wood and wood Rangiora plant. chips makes it a relatively inexpensive products produced in the Rangiora plant. stepping the use of containers, the timber product. As well as the standard Customwood is shrink-wrapped on bases and loaded by CTP's export sales manager, Lindsay interior panels, mouldings and reveals are forklift, an operation which, in itself, Reid, estimates that of manufactured wood making up regular shipments with Union's makes the final price of the Customwood products more than 90 percent of the Thsman liner service. more competitive in Australia. furniture alone produced in New Zealand The South Island marketing manager for The crp factory at Rangiora is at present is constructed partly of MDF. Union Maritime Services,^3,lJi1!:Y: being supplied with rimber from local He said that the present production says the crP producq.^?f- the largest L?r\"t, uro *oodchip from rhe Thupo area. capacity of 70,000 cubic metres a year crgytl cargo out o{ Lyl!\"]to,r_:. ih\" howdver, is well awire of a - - lL _ c would soon be increased to more than - with shipm_ents leaving^_Lyttelton for \"o-puny, 90,000. Of this total, 30 percent is exported Sv{nev and Melbour'9.?::,tlA*lX ioientiat'stro'r:tage of raw material and it is ^ a year in the to Jhpan, Singapore, Thiwan, Australia, the and an estimated annual .$ d2,9:9P . ir,\"*r\"i\" ir\"\"Jirg $r -liion r-' :l; fui\"t ar\" and devElopmeni of forest land. Pacific Islands, Britain and Sweden. metres being carried - the anticipated Exports to Australia total $15 million growth in exports to Australia will make In addition, the plant is undergoing an and, within 18 months, are expected to rise CTP the largest exporter in the Canterbury $8 milliorr extension programme to house to $25 million. region. a new $1.8 million sander - making The highlight of CTP's Australian export Customwood is especially suited to the Canterbury Timber Products well prepared drive has been the launching ofadded-value Thsman liner roll-on, roll-off service. Side- for further increased production. t I Carriers keep newsprint rolling Newsprint carriers developed by the Union Steam Ship flow of newsprint reels from Thsmania to the Australian Company of Australia for its major client, Australian Newsprint mainland. Mills, are bn the move'. A 24-hours-a-day truck shuttle-service moves the reels from More than 130 of the carriers are now in service between ANM's Boyer plant to its Pavilion Point (Hobart) store. This Hobart (Tasmania), Melbourne and Sydney, says Union manoeuvre means that ANM is saved the cost of building a new Australias general manager, Dan Goodall. store at Boyer - and the versatile, purpose-built carriers which transport the newsprint reels on end, are an important part of The announcement of the carriers was first made last June the strategy. at the time of the shipping contract signing with ANM which Mr Goodall explained that with a load factor of 15 tonnes, ratified a five-year agreement, effective from July 1. compared with only six tonnes on the bld'flats, the new carriers It was stated at the time by Group managing director, John were highly cost-effective. Keegan, that as a result of the agreement, Union Steam would With their collapsible ends, the carriers are able to stack flats spend about $A5.5 million in Thsmania on new containers and on top of each other after loads are discharged. forklift trucks. It is expected that the complete order for carriers will be A contract was let to Doric Engineering of Devonport for manufactured by June this year. construction of about 600 containers, based on a new design Mr Goodall said ANM was loading reels into the new concept. container at its Pavilion Point store at the rate of 40 a week, Now, the containers - or carriers - are on the move, playing and this would increase, as modifications to the store were a key part in helping ANM transport a virtually never-ending completed soon.

Linkrpon g MclGchniemetal to Australia a $2tm wi nner Copper tube shells awaiting A stack of brass rods in cold drawing. process. When an Australian wants water for his whisky, chances are he gets it from a tap made from brass rod shipped across the Thsman by McKechnie Brorhers (NZ) Lrd, New Plymouth, in a Union Company vessel. Last month, McKechnie Metal Products, the subsidiary company which McKechnie operates for all its exports, won an award for its outstanding overseas sales of brass extrusions and welding rods, aluminium extrusions and copper tubes for the last five years. Last financial year the company manufactured about $90 million worth of non-ferrous metal products, of which 921 million worth was exported, the most significant country being Australia. That export figure was up 24% on the previous year. 1986 promises to be another year of The Minister of Overseas Trade, Mike significant developments, particularly for Moore, congratulates McKechnie the company's Australian market. managing director Peter Sukolski on the When the Minister of Overseas Trade. company's expot't awurd. Mike Moore, visited the New Plymouth the tood lines. Such raw materiais as wool plant to present the plaque, he said were internationally recognised as McKechnie had won its export award for potentially attractive products, he said. international price daily. manufacfuring products with \"no consumer McKechnie Brothers, however, Therefore its market environment was appeal\". manufactured products which were very different from many other New New Zealand was well known for its basically raw materials and fabricated from Zeal,and exporters and its export award export ofconsumer products, especially in \"commodities\" which fluctuated in fully deserved, Mr Moore said. To mark the Union Company's long involvement with the export of McKechnie products, national sales manager Warren Sigley attended the ceremony. The association goes back to lSTl when McKechnie started to use Unions LCL cargo service. Today the mode is seafreighter pallets and on each Thsman crossing, either from Wellington or Auckland, 14 or 15 pallets can be used. The highest number on one sailing was 18. Professionalism and reliabilitv are reasons why McKechnie and the 'Union Company have had such an enduring association, according to the transport manager for McKechnie, Brian Carr. \"We are selling to people who can buy similar product just down the road,\" Mr Carr says, referring to the vitally important Australian market, 'hnd we need ships that go like buses. \"The high standard of service we receive from Union and the flexibility of the seafreighter pallet fits in exactly with our Inspecting extruded aluminium sections. requirements,\" Mr Carr says.

U Linkrpan New life for U nion Roto iti An access-cut in the Union Rotoiti's funnel to allow the economiser to be installed. The picture below shows where the original 'bpera house\" gas turbine filtration intake was removed and a new ventilation duct put in its place. The three new Wartsila diesel engines for the re-engining of the Union Company's transtasman roll-on, roll-off ship Union Rotoiti have reached Newcastle (New South Wales) from the makers, in Finland, to progress the re-engining programme. The Newcastle firm of G.H. Varley Ltd, is undertaking the contract to remove the existing gas turbine engines of the Union Rotoiti, and its sistership Union Rotorua, and replace them with Wartsila diesels. Liaising at Newcastle with the marine McPherson reported. as Linkspan went to been removed and the foundations cut away. engineering firm is Union Company fleet press. .The regenerator was being dis-assembled division technical supervisor Paul To prepare for the installation of the new into two halves and removed through the Pratchett. diesels, much of the ship's gas turbine ship's dangerous goods locker. \"The Union Rotoiti's re-engining equipment had already been dismantled tbr The gas turbine air inlet house, known programme at the Newcastle State removal. to marine engineers as the \"opera house\" Dockyard is progressing according to planl' The regenerator and accompanying pipe- - because of its appearance - had also Fleet Division general manager David work in the ship's gas turbine house had been removed. 250 voyages to Chathams The Union Steam Ship Company coaster New Zealand Department of Internal Shipping Company, a Wellington-based, Holmdale, which maintains a regular Affairs, as the Chatham Islanders'\"lifelind' family-owned company with a once- service between the South Island port of with the mainland. substantial fleet of coastal traders. Lyttelton, and the Chatham Islands, It usually carries timber, fertiliser and completed its 250th voyage, in January. foodstuffs to the Chathams and returns with The Holmdale has also been engaged, For many years, the Holmdale farm products and export fish cargoes. from time to time, by Internal Affairs to (1094-tonnes deadweight) has maintained The Holmdale, the last Union Company carry supplies to the Cook Islands and to the only regular shipping link between the ship to carry the Holm name, was built service the New Zealand Meteorological Chathams and mainland New Zealand. In almost 25 years ago. Many years ago, Service station on the Kermedec Islands, that time it has been under charter to the Union acquired all the interests of the Holm north of New Zealand.

The 4980cc Holden Commodore VK of John Harvey and Nesl Lowe in the Wetlington leg of the two-race Nissan Mobil 500 series. HoWen dealer team stablemate Peter Brock (right) won the Wellington race and John.Harvey won the second series race at Pukekahe a week later. High Union profile in car race series 'An immense success in terms of the series itself and of our for the company's involvement in this year's Nissan Mobil 500. association with it as a major sponsor.\" \"We decided to take a high profile in terms of our co- That was the verdict of Union Company commercial division sponsorship of the series this year - and that's exactly how it general manager James Bryant on this year's Nissan Mobil 500 looked on the dayj'James Bryant said. circuit racing series in New Zealand and the Union Shipping This summer's Nissan Mobil 500 was the second successive Groups sponsorship of it. year of Union Shipping's co-sponsorship. As the basis of its sponsorship, Union Shipping carried from Many customers of the Union Steam Ship Company and Australia the cars and transporters of 10 competitors in the Nissan friends of the company were able to sample the fun of the Mobil, including the Holden Commodore VKs of Wellington Wellington street-racing event in the Nissan Mobil series as winners Peter Brock and co-driver Allan Moffat and Pukekohe guests in the specially-erected hospitality marquee at the Union victors, John Harvey and Neal Lowe. Maritime Services terminal at Thranaki Street Wharf, All the cars shipped by Union from Melbourne and Sydney Wellington. to Wellington for the start of the series carried the red Union Leading Australian racing driver Peter Brock and co-driver Shipping logo, as they raced on the Wellington circuit and later Allan Moffat, representing the Holden Mobil dealer team, were on the New Zealand Grand Prix circuit at Pukekohe, near clear winners of the Wellington street racing event, while their Auckland. team-mates, John Harvey and Neal Lowe won at Pukekohe the As well as strong visual identification for Union Shipping with following week, sealing the series for the Holden dealer team. specially-prepared banners placed around the Wellington and Victorious but tired at the end of the gruelling event, driven Pukekohe circuits, Union Shipping marketing department in heavy rain, Brock commented to reporters: personnel masterminded the design and manufacture of caps, \"This felt more like 1000 kilometres at Bathurst (NSW) than tee-shirts, rallyjackets, carry-bags and decals specially created 500 kilometres around Wellington's streets.\" Airline anniversary More than 200 aviation enthusiasts and former employees of Union Airways - the forerunner of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, now Air New Zealand - gathered in Palmerston North in January to mark the 50th anniversary of the first airline passenger services linking New Zealand's main centres. The guests of honour at the anniversary function included the Union Shipping Groups assistant managing director, David Graham, representing the Union Steam Ship Company. Union Airways, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Union Steam Ship Company, began operations in January 1936, linking Palmerston North, Blenheim, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The inaugural service, from Milson Airport (Palmerston North) to Thieri Airport (Dunedin) was flown by a four-engined De Havilland DH 86, named the Karoro. To mark the anniversary of the inaugural flight, a 1942-vintage De Havilland DH 898, restored at a cost of $50900, re-enacted Union Airways'first commercial flight, by flying over the same route. The Union Steam Ship Company was a strong pioneering Old Union Aitays posters on display in Union Shipping\\ influence in New Zealand, commercial aviation. Wellington office are inspected by central region manager Dick As long ago as 1913, the Union Company wrote into its articles Hsrris-Daw and public relations consultant Jeff Brown. of association, the power to engage in aviation.

U Linkrpan Gelebratin l00years of motorin The roads of Canterbury (South Island) proved much kinder to the ancient wheels ofthe 750 entrants in the recent Pan Pacific Rally than the potholes. mud and ruts they were originally designed for. Organised by the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand, the rally attracted vintage and veteran motoring enthusiasts from A 1906 Cadillac K, owned by Mr R.W.C. Officer of the Waikato. Pacific Basin countries including Canada and the United States, as well as entries from England, West Jersey and Guernsey. They were all gathering to celebrate the centenary of the motor car. The Union Steam Ship Company was a major sponsor of the Pan Pacific Rally. Its sponsorship took the form of concessional transtasman freight rates fbr Australian vintage and veteran car owners shipping their valuable relics from Melbourne and Sydney to Lyttelton. Christchurch was chosen as the venue for the rally because of Lyttelton's suitability as a destination port through which to ship the vehicles from Australia and because of the ease with which overseas entrants and their crewsl arrival through Christchurch International Airport could be co-ordinated. Throughout five days of motoring, the clock was turned back as 22 classes of vehicle chugged in cavalcades through the A 1933 Alvis Firefly, owned by Mr I.A. Hay of Hawkes Bay. streets of Christchurch and into the surrounding countryside. The enthusiasm of New Zealand's antique car lovers was well in evidence. A few of the many vehicles restored to their former glory included a l9Z7 Lancia Lambda, a 1912 Alldays and Onions motorcycle, a l9l3 Fiat Zero and a l9l5 Triumph motorcycle with side car.. It has been claimed that New Zealand has ' more vintage cars per head of population than any other country - and popular theory has it that this is directly attributable to New Zealanders being inveterate hoarders. Consequently, old cars found discarded or retired in sheds, under bushes or in the corner ofa back paddock are a vintage car enthusiast's dream. With a national membership of 4251, the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand has been responsible for the preservation and restoration of many of these vehicles. l9I3 Clement Bayard, owned by Mr M.P McKie of the Waikato.