Finance and Planning, 1978-1979.

Finance and Cost Reduction Including Tilney & Co. Members of the stock exchange Shipping Research 6 September 1978; P&O Group Profits show a sharp decline from £26.7m in the first half of 1977 to £1.1m in the first of the year of 1978 as expected. Looks further into the different P&O divisions: Bulk Shipping, General Cargo Division, Passenger Division, European and Air Transport Division, General Holdings, Energy Division, Bovis Division, Banking Division, Share statistics with table and graph; Laurence, Prust & Co Shipping investment Research, Shipping Notes issue no.67, 6 March 1979, by Dan White looking at Brief statistics, the problems mount in the container trades, the growth of the container fleet, estimates, 1977, cargoes on Far East- Europe Trades, P&O retrenchment is the name of the game, Burmah Oil- Some good and some not as good news, Euroferries Develops, Larne- A record 178, Rig Rates, The week Ending 1 March 1979 in Shipping; Preliminary report on fleet management re-organisation, 30 March 1978- ripped in two.
Bunker Contracts, 7 April 1978; Limits of Authority by Lord Inchcape, 11 December 1978, looks at P&O Australia, Bovis Overseas Trade Bonding; Cost Reductions, 10 August 1978 covering catering, Group cars, training, stationery & Printing, Copying, Communication; 1979 Budgets, 4 August 1978, with A B Marshalls notes; Cost reduction letters with summary on Group Projects, Senior Staff, Computer Operations, Data Preparation, European and Air Transport, Deep Sea Divisions and Bovis, Central Staff Divisions, Systems; Development and Bishopsgate, Time Sharing, Staff Salaries and Associated Costs; Cost reductions documents, 15 August 1978; Bovis Limited Paper 29 August 1978, on Cost Reduction.