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A8-Sunday News, July 27, 1980

ON THE SPOT ACTION picture was taken: by North Vancouver Mayor Don Bell.

Crist wrong on merchant marine

Dear Editor:
I sure hope that Alderman
Ernie Crist knows a lot more

about North Van Dizistrict
problems than he does about
a Canadian Merchant
Marine (N.S. News July 9th).

I am not disputing his
statistics of 1978 which were
reported in “Seaports and
Shipping World” in February
1979 and I also am in favour
of a national fleet, but how
to accomphsh that ts another
matter and although Erne
told us how to do it, he failed
to take into
the consequences of
demands

Due to the
atutude of the Federal
department of finance.
Canadian-based in
ternational ship) operators
have been dnven offshore
International ship-owners
don't pay taxes In the UK
and USA ship operators are
protected from tax payment
forever, provided the taxes
are re invested in shipping
In Canada taxes are paid to
both federal and provincial
governments The Canadian
government should stay out
of ship Operations, but cught

consideration
has

repressive

to encourage ship financing
through tax foor
deepsea Nects and pet nd of
the detrimental
withholding tax

ER

IGLOO

Gallery

Gifts Truly Canadian

legislation

I per cent

We are all well aware that
it is the shippers of Canadian
cargo who are against a
Canadian deepsea fleet for
the simple reason that they
are afraid that freight costs
will be higher than at present
if they are obhged to use
Canadian flag vessels. So if
Canada pays out $3 bilhon
annually to foreign ship
owners as Ernie states, what
would be the = alternative
pnce? To a taxpayer one
thing is certain and that 1s,
that government subsidies
are not desirable Another
most imprtant factor ts thal
ship building and == ship
operating are two different
shtuanions and must not be
the raison detre for a
Canadian Merchant Marine
Vhe ship operator must be
Riven the choice to burld
ships wherever he can make

the best arrangements and
this also apphes to ship
fC pales

Finally in’ the Vast

paragraph E-rme is mixing up
the apples and pears The
40 40/20 formula he refers

to os the United Nations
Conterence on Trade and
Development tUNCTAD)
code of conduct for Liner

Conferences and the 40 per
cont that
vessels

Carpe Canadian

blag would — be

allocated ows “Conference”

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does not refer to bulk
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tonnage.

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trades collectively  ac-

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thirds of all of Canada's
Conference traffic in 1975
Therefore, the net effect for
Canada would depend not
only upon decisions taken
within this country, but also.
to a large extent, upon the
achions of our major trading
partners.
According to

Research Branch of
federal government. ap
plication oof the cargo
reservation principles of
UNCTAD in certain of
Canada’s conference trades
may preclude the operation
of some hnes at the most
economic level. In the trade
with West Afmea. for
example, the national lines
of a number of countnes
which have only a limited
amount of trade with Canada

the
the

would cach be entitled to a
small share of the total
trade This’ relatively low

volume of traffic may not be
sufficient oto oo yustify the
operaton of a line wath
adequate frequency 9 of
the mast cf

service with

or for yoursell

ficient size of vessel. The
imphcations of this might
well be higher rates and
lower quality service in such
trades.

Canada chose nol to
support UNCTAD Code
because it felt that cargo

reservation provisions might
prevent or seriously reduce
competinon in the Canadian

liner trades. ultimately
resulting in higher freight
rales

Alan Shard
Master Mariner
West Vancouver

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