Shipping News
Container ship to bypass Lyttelton
Lyttelton ship watchers missed out on an expected treat this week when the visit of the new New Zealand Caribbean to the port was cancelled. The Shipping Corporation of New Zealand’s latest acquisition was to have taken on containers at New Plymouth and then loaded at Lyttelton before beginning her first north-bound voyage. Instead, she will call only at New Plymouth before sailing to Panama, Maracaibo, . Port of Spain, Kingston, Vera Cruz, and the United States Gulf where she is scheduled to,arrive at the end of April. The New Zealand Caribbean, with a deadweight of 16,000 tonnes, was handed over to the corporation at the Bremer Vulkan yards in Bremen in late January and immediately began her maiden south-bound voyage for the Gulf of Mexico. Built at an estimated cost of $25 million, she is equipped with four 36-tonne capacity slewing cranes for container handling. She is one of three new container ships forming a new consortium on the Australia-New Zealand-Caribbean route. Two sister ships are under construction in Britain for the corporation’s partners in the consortium, Sliaw-Savill and the Bank Line. The New Zealand Caribbean arrived at New Plymouth from the United States Gulf via Panama and Australia. ARRIVALS Saturday .Holmdale (6.13 a.m.), 911, Chatham Islands (U.S.S.). SundayUnion Hobart (7.4 a.m.), 4637 s Wellington (U.S.S.). DEPARTURES Saturday Altis (10.20 a.m.), 9868, Napier (Scales). ' ,' : ;
ACT 7 (8.47 p.m.). 43,992, Tilbury (Blueport A.C.T.). Sunday
Nil. ' EXPECTED ARRIVALS Coastal Trader, Auckland, today
: (Gladstone Pier). Erne, Dunedin. today (Oil
Wharf). , . , Botany Trust, Auckland, today (Cashin Quay No. 2). Wild Auk, Auckland, today. ACT 7, Tilbury, today. Brooknes. Nauru, April 2. Coastal Trader, Dunedin. April 2. Wellington Star, Auckland, April 2. Maratna, Dunedin, April 3. Tekoa, from sea, April 4; Novovjatsk, Napier, April 4. Union Lyttelton, Melbourne. Wellington, April 8. Austral Moon. Papeete, April- s. Union Lyttelton, Wellington,
April 10. Strathmore. Auckland, April 11. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Coastal Trader, Dunedin, today. Townsville Star, Black Sea,
today. ? ' ■ ■ Alucom; Bluff, today. Erne, Marsden Point, today. Wild Auk. Napier, today. Union Hobart, Nelson. Sydney,
tomorrow. Botany, Trust, sea. tomorrow. Coastal Trader, Auckland. April 2. Wellington Star, -Wellington, April 2.. Marama, Wellington, Tauranga, - Sydney, April 31 -?' •- Union Lyttelton, Dunedin, April Union Lrttelton, Wellington, April 10. VESSELS IN PORT
Wild Auk, Cashin Quay No. 1. Alucom, Cashin Quay No. 2. Union Hobßrt, ; No. 3 East. Townsville Star. No. 3 West. Pacific Fruit, No. 7 East. Holmdale, No. 7 : West.
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