The report reviews the freight equalisation scheme. Contents : Interpretation of the terms of references. Economic efficiency and equity. Tasmania's transport disadvantages. Historical perceptions of Tasmania's shipping disadvantages and analogous examples of assistance. The origins of the Tasmanian freight equalisation scheme. Development of the scheme. Payments made under the scheme and data relating to the major recipients. Present and proposed shipping services between Tasmania and the mainland states. Bass Strait shipping : an overview. Air freight. Criticisms of the scheme. Investigations of alternatives to the existing scheme. Recommended Federal Government direction and conditions for the administration of the Tasmanian Freight Compensation Scheme. A Tasmanian association for interstate shippers. Findings and conditions in respect of special individual matters. Centralisation. Intermodal competition and transport policy. Subsidies. Sea freight transport. Freight costs. Shipping
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"March 1985'
AGPS cat. no. 8500653
Australian Government Publishing Service cat. no. 8500665