Forum Archive Index - October 2003

[Marilyn Munroe <who.c@res.co.nz>]

Yo Snoopy, I didn't recognise you there. As we disguise our identities we were 
ships which passed in the night.

Some comments;

The current directors seem to blase about the cost overruns with the coal 
loading upgrade. I find it difficult to believe that former chairman Brent 
Layton would have been as relaxed about the issue as the current directors.

I am also concerned about the skills of some of the directors. Several of them 
have sat at the boardroom tables of companies where the results could be 
charitably described as mixed.

Nautical scuttlebut;

While quaffing refreshments at the after match function an informed source, not 
part of LPC, gave me the drum on P & O's flouncing off to Port Chalmers with 
its large boat container service.

Seems P & 0 have lost market share. They are having trouble achieving full 
northbound loadings. Schedules have been slipping. The colonials have also 
sprung a nasty suprise (not) with higher than world average density of 
container loadings. Seems we load containers with heavy stuff like butter, 
cheese, dumped wool and frozen meat. The new ships are designed to just squeeze 
through the Panama Canal. All the heavy Kiwi cargo causes the ship to bend in 
the middle like a banana and so the ships are having trouble passing through 
the locks.

Boop-boop-de-do Marilyn

PS At next years meeting i will wear some of my friends (diamonds are a girls 
best ...) so that you can recognise me Snoopy.

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