Shipping News Objections likely over Magazine Bay

Press, 18 April 1979, Page 10

Shipping News Objections likely over Magazine Bay

Some objections ate expected to be lodged with the Lyttelton Harbour Board over alleged interference with the environmental aspects of Magazine Bay. A floating breakwater of used car tyres is being made and tested at Magazine Bay by the board’s engineering staff. The pilot scheme will be sited south of the public slipway at Naval Point, and the test strip will cover 40m by 15m.

It is believed that the main basis for objections will be any proposals to remove trees for parking in the area. One of the world’s largest rolion vessels, the Tourcoing, will call at Timaru on April 24. Tile Tourcoing is a new addi. tlon to the Scancarriers fleet servicing the integrated Scans Zeal and Scans Austral trades to New Zealand and Australia. The ship was launched by Mrs M. Clarke, the wife of the chairman of the Wool Board, in a ceremony at Nagasaki, Japan, on September 26, 1978. She is named after the town of Tourcoing, a wool processing centre in the north of France, with which Scancarriers’ three Scandinavian shipping lines have a traditional link. Her visit will be the ninth aall by a vessel of Scancarriers sinse its roll-on service to New Zealand started nine months ago. Auckland, Napier, and Timaru are the regular ports of call. The stern ramp on the Tourcoing le 50m long and 12m wide, and can accommodate up to 600 tonnes. The third-generation vessel has a deadweight of about 31,000 tonnes, and a capacity of 2145 M cubic feet. Her over-all length is 228.5 m, width 32m, and her container capacity is 1711 units. All the vessels in the fleet have specially designed car decks with a capacity of 200-600 medium-sized cars. ARRIVALS Nil. DEPARTURES Iron Baron. (6.30 p.m.), 5583, Bell Bay (Australia), Capt. T. Harris (Seatrans). Kangourou (9 p.m.), 26,437, Melbourne, Capt. P. Coursler (Seabridge). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Coastal Trader, Dunedin, today. Nolle D, Nauru Island, today. Polessk, Bluff, April 20. Union Lyttelton, Dunedin, April 21. Asakaze Maru, Bluff. April 21. Kpaka, tanker, Marsden Point, April 21. Nganara, Tauranga, April 22. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Coastal Trader, Auckland, today. Khpdozhnik Deyneka, Napier, April 19. Union Lyttelton, Wellington, April 21. Hanka Sawicka, Tauranga, April 23. VESSELS IN PORT Hanka Sawicka, Cashin Quay No. 2. Holmdale, No. 3 East. Khudozhnik Deyneka, No. 3 West.