TRADE WITH EAST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22774, 7 July 1937, Page 15

TRADE WITH EAST

SEVERAL NEW SHIPS JAPANESE VESSELS faster cargo service / . DUTCH COMPANY'S PLANS Greatly improved facilities for trade between New Zealand and the East are promised by the decisions of two shipping colli panics to replace vessels nt present in the service with faster am l more modern ships. The South Pacific Line's service between New Zealand, the Dutch East Indies and Singapore will bo strengthened early next- year by the replacement of the Van Pecs by a larger steamer, the Tasman, and the three cargo vessels of the Japanese Yamashita Kisen Kaislia Line will be withdrawn anu neiv motor-ships will be employed. Three Diesel Craft The Yamashita Kisen Kaislia Line w jl| withdraw the Manju Maru, Keifuku Maru and Chifuku Maru, and employ three Diesel ships which will maintain a service of 17 days between Kobe and Auckland. The Manju Maru has already been taken out of commission and her successor will be the Kozan Maru, which will arrive at Auckland on her first visit from Kobe on July !"• 1C Kozan Maru, of 41S0 tons gross, was built in 1935 at Kobe and is capable of a speed of 11 knots. The Keifuku Maru has been replaced bv the Xfiniwa Maru, which is due here on August 21. Export of Produce

Then there is the Osaka Shoscn Kaisha Lino, which operates the refrigerated vessels Brisbane Mam, Melbourne Maru ami Sydney Main each capable of a speed of 15 knots—on the New Zealand service. These ships call at Cebu, Manila, Hongkong and Shanghai. In the last four or five months shipments of New Zealand priniarv produce to these ports have grown to relatively large proportions, the last, three Osaka Shoscn Kaisha ships having taken 9000 boxes ot butter from Auckland. They also take apples, cheese, milkpowder, casein, tallow and fungus. New Dutch Service

The replacement by the < South Pacific Line of the Van Bees by the larger steamer Tasman will, it is hoped, meet the growing demands of the new Dutch service. The Tasman was built at Hull in 1921 and has a gross tonnage of nearly 5000. She will maintain the service with the motorship Maetsuycker due at Auckland on her second voyage on Tuesday. In addition *to these companies, the steamer Narbada, chartered by the Union Company, makes three passages a year from Calcutta to New Zealand ports, via Penang, Singapore and Samarang.