Shipping News

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34151, 12 May 1976, Page 27

Shipping News

P ort Chalmers favoured

Eastern shippers remain intent on using Port Chalmers rather than Lyttelton in their proposed container service to Japan, in spite Lyttelton’s present substantial two-way trade with this country.

The vitality of the Lyttelton-. lil ? k was highlighted yes-, terday when four snips servicing the trade were loading and dis-i at Lyttelton. The Emboli is discharging 6370 tons of knocked-down cars and the Recife Maru discharged: •00 tons of genera] cargo and loaded, 900 tons of general cargv i and 1700 bales of wool, and the Japan Kauri has 1580 tons of general to discharge for both Lyttelton and Dunedin. The J Japan Kauri is also loading reefer and general cargo for both ports' at Lyttelton to help the vessel, maintain her schedule. The Turakina sailed vesterdayj after discharging 511 tons of gene~al cargo and loading 600 tons of reefer and 450 tons of genera! cargo. However. the Japan Line's; representative on the New Zea-j land Eastern Shipping Committee Oir A. R. Turnbull) said that I the decision to use only the! Auckland. Wellington, and Poit < halmers container terminals was made last September. So far. t’e position had not materiaJlvl changed.

The New Zealand Ports t Authority and the Lyttelton Harbour Board had been info’-med of the committee’s! stand, a stand recently reaffirmed at the Harbours Association conference in Timaru last month. The decision was made because of various technical reasons, Mr Turnbull said. ‘The Japanese have had a fair bit of experience on the container scene.” he said. ‘They have sent several technical groups out and all have been unanimous in their preference for Port Chalmers over Lvttelton.” The committee would maintain » residual conventional cargo service at Lyttelton, said Mr| Turnbull. Certain cargoes, suchi as the knocked-down cars dis- 1 charged from the Eriboll, were’ unsuitable for containers and, would continue to be channeled ; through Lyttelton. lines arc involved in the committee’s container service to Japan — the Japan Line, Mitsui-OSK, the China Navigation Company, and the Crusader Shipping Company. Their first container vessel is expected to arrive tn November. * :> « The Russian fishing training vessel, Kvadrant, which made an emergency call at Lyttelton with a sick crew member late on Thursday night, returned yesterday to take the man back on board.

The man, a chief training inspector, Mr Andrushko iGrigority. had been taken to Christchurch by ambulance with I a suspected perforated stomach ■ ulcer but was declared fit for [duty on Monday. He was taken by the Lyttelton pilot launch Wairangi to the Lyttelton Heads yesterday morning where he rejoined the I Kvadrant. ARRIVALS Rangatira <6.37 a.m.), 9387, Capt. R. Pugh-Williams, Wellington (U.S.S.L Union Sydney <7.3 a.m.), 4752, Capt. A. Mclntyre. Wellington HU.S.S.). DEPARTURES Turakina (10.35 a.m.), 7707, Capt. P. Farrell. New Plvmouth! <P and O'. Hupeh (4.47 p.m.), 5616. Capt. ■J. M. Kelly, Tauranga <P and O). Recife Maru .5.9 p.m.), 7772, iDunedin (Seatrans). I Daewoo ( ), Capt. Oh 11 |Jun, Bluff (Scales). ! Union Sydney < ), 4752. Capt. A. Mclntyre, Dunedin (U.S.S.). Rangatira < >, 9387. Capt. R. E. Pugh-Williams, Wellington HU.S.S.L

EXPECTED ARRIVALS Gudrun Maersk, today. Kolle D., Nauru Island, today. Continental Pioneer. Napier, May 13. Union Sydnev, Dunedin. May 13. Coastal Trader, Dunedin, today. Aurora, Timaru, May 14. Holmdale, Chatham Islands, May 14. Milburn Carrier, May 14. Vishva Chetana, Wellington, May 15. PROJECTED DEPARTURES (Wild Auk. Bluff, today. William Foster, Dunedin, todav. I Coastal Trader. Auckland, today, i Gudrun Maersk, Wellington. . May 13. |Frysna, Auckland, May 15. Union Sydney, Wellington, May | 13. ißadenstein. Timaru. May 15. I Mataura. New Plymouth, May 15. VESSELS IN PORT Mataura, Cashin Quay No. 1. Banbury, Cashin Quay No. 2. F rysna, G.P.E. Eriboll, Cashin Quay No. 3. Opal City, G.P.E. Japan Kauri. No. 1 Breastwork. Wild Auk, No. 2 East. Badenstein, No. 3 West. William Foster. No. 7 West. Gudrun Maersk, oil wharf. Mau here, graving dock.