Shipping News
Coastal Ranger to end service
Time is running out for the roll-on vessel Coastal Ranger after being laid up in Lyttelton for almost a year.
Next week the Shipping Corporation of New Zealand vessel will sail out of Lyttelton for the last time for dry-docking at Wellington before being sold to a Greek buyer.
The Coastal Ranger lias been replacing the Coastal Trader on the Auckland-Lyttelton-Dunedin service and will end her service with the Dunedin to Lyttelton link next Wednesday.
The Coastal Trader will leave the Lyttelton dry dock on Saturday and resume the Coastal Rangers run by taking over the north-bound Dunedin and Lyttelton cargo next Wednesday. « * ❖
Meanwhile, the new two-way trade linking Lyttelton with the Philippines. Taiwan and Hong Kong has been attracting a lot of cargo. The two new ships, Kwangsi and Kweichow, have established a pattern and already this year two additional sailings have been arranged. Recently the service has also extended to ports normally outside the regular New Zealand Unit Express s-ihedules. The Kwangsi called ?t Nelson and Whangarei to take milk powder to Manila, and the call to Nelson was the first to that port for several years for a N.Z.U.E. ship. £ * #
Bread available in Christchurch is being exported to Japan on the New Zealand Eastern Shipping service. The bread is made in Auckland. and in addition to the Christchurch market, outlets are being obtained in Japan. The bread was taken on the
Japan Line container ship Godwit . under “captain’s care’’ as a trial! shipment. Specially breads by the same! company are already being exported io Norfolk Island, Samoa, New Guinea, Tahiti. New Caledonia and a growing Middle East market. ARRIVALS Jervis Bay <6 a.m.i. 26,876, Sydney., Capt. R J. Bland iP and Oi. Coastal Ranger (7 a.m.i. 2926. Dunedin. Capt. P. Thompson (S.C.N.Z.I. Alucoin (11 a.m.i, 559(1, Japan (Japan Linet. Union Lyttelton (noon). 4500, Wellington. Capt. R. 11. Stewart (U.S.S.). DEPARTURES Coastal Ranger (3 p.m.', 2926, Auckland (S.C.N.Z.). Oriental Importer '6.30 p.m.), 9369. Bluff (Japan Line.) Union Lyttelton <8.30 p.m.), 4500. Wellington (U.S.S.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Union Hobart. Wellington, today. H.M.N.Z.S. Pukaki, fisheries patrol, today. Union Lvttelton, Wellington, March 29. Major Sucharski, Tauranga, March 29. Tauloto 11, Port Moresbv, March 29. Dunedin, Tauranga. March 29. Southland Star. Suva. March 30. Ragni Berg, Auckland, March 31. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Union Hobart. Wellington, today. Union Lyttelton, Wellington, March 29. Jervis Bay, for sea, March 29. Holmdale. Chatham Islands, March 30. Dunedin. Bluff. March 30. VESSELS IN PORT Alueom. Cashin Quay No. 1 Nedlloyd Freetown, Cashin Quay No. 2. Jervis Bay. Cashin Quay No. 3. Holmdale, No. 3 East.
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