Bulk carrier due on maiden voyage
Shipping News
Lyttelton will be the first port of call in X’rw Zealand ior the neu 17.39 5-tou bulk carrier Lantau Trader which will berth on Monday on her maiden voyage. She Mas completed a few months .»go in Japan and on her way to New Zealand visited Nauru where she loaded phosphate. the Lain &u Trader was originally scheduled to arrive at Lyttelton on October 18. but along with a number of other vessels, was forced to lay at anchor at Nauru for nearly three | weeks awaiting cargo. fhe new vessel, owned by the Bh.irdale Shipping Company ot Hong Kong, has a deadweight of 28.372 tonne.- and an over-all length of 180.8 m -about 593ft\ She has a beam of 23.1 m and her loaded summer draught is 10.7 m. The Lantau Trader is the' second of three phosphate ship* j calling at Lyttelton within a >three-week period. She was pre ceded by the Wayfarer which dis-, ■charged 0800 tonnes of phosphatei (here beginning on Octobe 23 and will no followed by the Wan‘deter which is scheduled to, i arrive at Lyttelton on Not ember 14 to discharge 6000 tonnes. Both the Wanderer and the Wayfarer loaded at (.Twist mas Island. ARRIVALS ; Nil. DEPARTURES t Kotuku -7 a.m.)» 16,221. Marsden Point (U.S.S.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Jstrathmeigle. Auckland, toda? 1 (Csshin Quay No. 1). [Wild Fulmar. Auckland. Nov. 3. Messiniaki Aigli. Singapore, Nov. 1 3. 1
-Coastal Trader, Auckland. Nov. S. Lantau Trader. Nauru. Nov 5. I uioa Hobart W elliagton, Nov. <. Felipes. Buckom. No* 6 Coastal Trader, Dunedin, Nov. 7 Anatoly Lunacharsky. Napier, Nov. 7. Union Hobart. Dunedin. Nov 8. Sea Tide. Dunedin, No*. 8 Mayfield. Houston. No* F Forum Niu Glni. Port Moresb . No*. 9 Union Hobart. Wellington. Nov. 10 Heroj Piac. Australia. Nov. 11 City of Exeter. Port Kembla. No* 13 Elsfleth. Auckland. No*. 13 Wanderer. Christmas Island. No*. 14. i Union Lyttelton. Wellington Nor. U Karetu. Port Kembla. No*-. 14 Botany Triumph, Australia, Nov. Lake Eyre. The*enard. No*. IF Union Lyttelton. Dunedin. No*. I 17. Union L*ttelton, Wellington, Nov. | 20 PROJECTED DEPARTURES iW’ild Fulmar. Timaru Nov. 5 Coastal Trader. Dunedin, No*. 5 Sti athmeigle. Newcastle, Nov. 6. 'Union Hobart. Dunedin. Nov. * Coastal Trader, Auckland. Nov. 7. !Union Hobart. Wellington. Nov. 8. Holmdale. Chatham Islands. No* 8. Union Hobart, Wellinfton, No*. I 10 Karetu. Wellington. Nov. 14 Union Lyttelton. Dunedin. Nov.* 15. "* Union Lyttelton, Wellington, No* 17. Union Lyttelton. Dunedin, No*. 20. VESSELS IN PORT Holmdale. No. 7 East.
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