TRADE WITH JAPAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 210, 5 September 1930, Page 5

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

NEW SHIPPING SERVICE.

MODERN MOTOR VESSEL.

The announcement by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Line that their motor shin Brisbane Maru is to load in Japan for Wellington and Auckland as well as Australian ■ ports suggests that the company intends to run a regular service between Japan and New Zealand. The local agents of the line, Messrs. A. G. Frankham, Limited, said this morning that the Brisbane Maru is scheduled to load timber at Otaru on September 19 and general cargo at Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, and Moji, and to sail from Moji on October 1 for Hongkong and Manila, thence %o Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne,. Wellington, and Auckland. She is due at Wellington on November 2, and at Auckland on November 5.

The decision of the company is apparently the result of a. favourable report from the representative who visited New Zealand some time ago to inquire into the prospect of building up direct trade between this country and Japan. Hitherto, cargo between the two countries has been transhipped at Sydney, which has meant delay and greater costs. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha iias traded for many years between Australia and the East, and has recently replaced the older vessels of its fleet with fast motor ships, of which the Brisbane Maru is one of the latest. She is 5435 tons gross, and has refrigerated space which, it is hoped, will be available for the carriage of New Zealand butter. She hae no passenger accommodation.