Shipping News
Welshman takes top post with Seaport
A Welshman with pro-All Black leanings, Captain John T. Owen, is now Lyttelton manager for Seaport Operations, Ltd. He recently arrived from New Plymouth to complete the company’s reorganisation at the port, to add specialist supervision of stevedoring services. Captain Owen formed a desire tor shore life after surviving a cyclone while commanding the Wellington Harbour Board’s tug Tiakina on her delivery voyage from England to New Zealand. His sea career started as a cadet during World War Two. He subsequently served on Port Line vessels. Captain Owen came ashore at Auckland to join the then New Zealand Shipping Company. Various mergers subsequently took him to Timaru and then New Plymouth as manager of Seaport Operations. He opened the Taranaki branch of Seatrans, Ltd. In 1977, to control ships’ agency work and marketing throughout the province.
His wife is a former National Airways Corporation 1 air hostess. She also flew with Canadian Pacific Airlines before coming to New Zealand to form the “Folded Wings Association” for air hostesses who no longer fly. * * *
Another version of why ships are referred to as "she” has been submitted by S.N.T., of Lyttelton: I love fo see the great big ships That sail across the sea They cost an awful lot to run That’s why they call her she. # <s #
Proposed New Zealand trade with China is already attracting the interest of international shipping companies.
cninese snipping interests recently announced moves to enter the world shipping market by chartering its own fast-growing merchant fleet for the carriage of freight to all parts of the world. China is also building ships in its own yards and has begun ambitious plans, with foreign technical assistance, to modernise its ports. The plans include the Installation of computerised container terminals at five ports. ARRIVALS Wellington Star (6.23 a.m.), 7786, Auckland. Capt. W. J. G. Jones (Blue Port). DEPARTURES Nil. EXPECTED ARRIVALS Union Hobart, Wellington, today. Toa Moana, Auckland, June 17. Coastal Trader, Auckland, June 18. Kolle D, Nauru Island. June 18. Union Lyttelton, Wellington, June 19. Moresby Chief, Onehunga, June 20. Coastal Trader, Dunedin, June 20. Union Lyttelton, Dunedin, June 21.
PROJECTED DEPARTURES Union Hobart, Nelson, today. Wellington Star, Los Angeles, today. Coastal Trader, Dunadin, June 18. Union Lyttelton, Dunedin, June 19. Toa Moana, Napier, June 19. Coastal Trader, Auckland, June 20. Union Lyttelton, Wellington, June 21.
VESSELS IN PORT Wellington Star, Cashin QuayNo. 3. ! Holmdale, No. 7 East.
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