German maritime trade report

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33520, 29 April 1974, Page 18

German maritime trade report

A special bulletin ("Sonderdlenst"), received from the German Embassy In Wellington predicts a boom in world maritime trade.

Computer prediction, now widely used, indicates exciting possibilities by the end of the vear, the report suggests. This is due to the rapid world population growth and increased industrialisation, the report says. The total world merchant fleet has increased from 68 million gross register tonnage in the 1930 s to some 280 million gross register tonnage today. (One gross registered tonnage is equal to 2.83 cubic metres.) Seaborne goods traffic rose in the same period, from an over-all 470 million tons to just under 3000 million tons today. It is now calculated, according to the report, that in the 19705, total maritime goods traffic on a world-wide basis will increase to 5000 million tons by 1980, the report says. , A good half of this trade could be taken up by mineral oil, but this will be governed by the uncertainty regarding the willingness of Arab oil countries to increase output. Iron ore shipments are expected to double, the report says. Sea transport of grain and coal will also accelerate. The major ports in the Federal Republic of Germany are adapting themselves to future requirements. Harbour restructuring has been necessary to keep the world maritime gateways open.

Hamburg is the largest of the Federal German seaports. In 1973 it handled 50 million tons of seaborne goods. Today 8700 vessels on regular runs moor annually at this great Hanseatic seaport. Hamburg is also the major coal port in the republic. Hamburg, through shipping, is linked to 1100 seaports through-, ’out the world. Container trade is booming. In 1972 Hamburg i handled 180,000 containers, an increase of 50 per eent since the previous year. In 1973, container traffic rose to 250,000 units in this one port. The service to Australia and New Zealand accounts for 20 per cent of Hamburg's container business. Hamburg has 11 full container lines to North America, Australia, Eastern Asia, and Israel. Eight full container lines, additionally serve European routes. But there are many semi-container and roll-on services too.

A great feature of the port of Hamburg complex is the “Overseas Centre.” This is the largest roofed-over general cargo handling point in the world, accepting 25,000 individual items from places inland daily, and which are assembled there for export. This centre deals with 400,000 tons of export goods annually <2O per cent of which is packed in containers). A packing station has been set up to do this packing, and dispatches a weekly average of more than 200 collective containers to the loading

points. The containers are all packed by experts. But Hamburg is only one port of the republic, and other great ports such as Bremen are also playing a huge role in increasing the world’s maritime industrialisation. # # « ARRIVALS Saturday

Rangatira (8.19 a.m.). 9387, Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.S.S.). ' Sunday

Rangatira (8.7 a.m.), 9387, Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.S.S.). Aramoana (1.58 p.m.). 4160, Capt. A. Gullen, Picton IU.S.S.).

DEPARTURES Saturday

Rangatira (10.5 a.m.), 9387, Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.S.S.). (Daylight.) Hobart Star (5.13 p.m.), 8398, Bluff (Blueport). Woosung (6.3 p.m.). 5393, Capt. A. L. Carter, Napier (P and O (N.Z.), Ltd). Sunday Rangatira <8.42 p.m.), 9387, Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.S.S.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Holmlea, Wellington, today. Coastal Trader, Auckland, today. Union Wellington, Melbourne. April 30. Rangatira, Wellington. April 30. Yamaasa Maru, Wellington,

May 1. Iron Wyndham, Australia. May 1. Maheno, Auckland, May 1. Crescent, Naru, May 1 ibulk). Vishva Sandesh, Dunedin, May 1. Hamilton. Marsden Point. May 2

(tanker). 'Woollahra, Napier. May 2 (semi-

container). Boris Zhemcbuzhin. Dunedin. May 3

PROJECTED DEPARTURES Aramoana, Wellington, today. Holmdale, Chathams, today. Marko Polo. Hobart, today. Shabonee, Melbourne, today

iTanker.l Holmlea. Wellington, today. Coastal Trader. Dunedin, today. Union Wellington. Wellington. April 30. Rangatira, Wellington, April 30

(Daylight). Frvsna. Tauranga, April 30. Marko Marulic. Australia. May I. Granton, Australia, May 2.

ibulk). Hertford, Hull. May 2. Maheno. Wellington, May 2. Hamilton, Tlmaru, May 3.

(tanker). Vishva Sandesh. Wellington. May

3. i Iron Wyndham, —. May 3. Crescent. Timaru. May 3 (bulk)., Yamaasa Maru. —. May 4. Woollahra. Dunedin. May 4 isemicontainer). ’ VESSELS IN PORT Granton. G.P.E. (Bulk). Hertford. No. 2 East. Frvsna. No. 6 West isurvev), Marko Marulic, No. 7 East. I