Sea trials for tanker
(From CHARLES COOPER, London correspondent of "The Press.")
LONDON, September 4. The first of two big tankers for the New Zealand Petroleum Products coastal run will undergo her sea trials off Gothenburg, Sweden, next week.
I She is the 25,500-ton Kotuku, named and launched by I Mrs Rowling while in Europe i last February. The Kotuku and her sister ship Kuaka, launched in June by Mrs Sylvia Freer, wife of the Minister of Trade and Industry, will replace the Old Hamilton and Athelviscount on the regular shuttle bei tween, the Marsden Point re- ■ finery and petroleum storage ports in New Zealand. The tankers will be the largest vessels in the coastal trade and also the largest on the New Zealand register. The Kotuku is due to be handed over from the shipyard next Thursday, assuming she passes her sea trials on Tuesday. Given her “warrant of fitness.” the tanker will be ready to head for New Zealand. where she will ply her specialist trade for a fuel consortium, headed by British Petroluem and Shell, which will pay about sl.sm
a year to charter her from the owners, the Montrealbased Papachristidis Line. The Kuaka will be at the same rent, and from the same owners.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33941, 6 September 1975, Page 16
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