Shipping News Australia to get four coal-fired ships

Press, 29 August 1980, Page 8

Shipping News Australia to get four coal-fired ships

1 Two Australian firms have I ordered two “new generation” coal-fired bulk carriers, after , months spent studying the feasi- , bility of returning to coal power. The Thomas Nationwide Tr'ans- • port group’s subsidiary," BulkI ships, Ltd, has confirmed orders placed with the Monfalcone division of Italy’s State-owned Italcantieri shipbuilding group. A spokesman for Bulkships said that the two vessels would each be of 75,000 tonnes deadweight and. when completed, would be chartered to Queensland Aluminimum for 20 years. The Australian National Line; at the same time, confirmed that it had placed orders for two coalfired bulk carriers with. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagasaki. It is believed that the ships will be of similar size to those ordered from Italy by the T.N.T. Group. " ■ • - : - !- Mr D. Bendall, executive director of the Australian Shippers’ Council, has told a meeting in Sydney that Australia is losing! a great deal of foreign exchange I and employment by not develop-! ing a national “flag” merchant' fleet. ARRIVALS Ayon (8.37 a.m.), 3468, Wellington (Scales). > . ■ DEPARTURE Entalina (6.29 a.m.), 19,221, Wei- : lington (Dalgety). Nedlloyd Fremantle (4.15 p.m.), 10,909, Wellington (Guthrey). EXPECTED ARRIVALS , Vlshva Bindu. Dunedin. 8 a.m. today (Cishill Quay No. 1). -

i H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki, Wellington, ’ 9 a.m. today (No. 4 East). ■ Coastal Trader, Auckland, September 1. . Ngakuta, Tauranga, September • Union Lyttelton, Wellington,. ; September 2. ■ Holmdale, Chatham Islands, Sepl tember 3. . Coastal Trader, Dunedin, Sepi tember 3. ' ■ i Austral Pioneer, Melbourne, ; September 4.. : Fusus, Singapore, September 4. • Louisa, Christmas Island, September 5. Nedlloyd Madison, Wellington, September 5. ■ Union Hobart, Dunedin. Septem- . ber 5. Lake Eyre, Bluff, September 7. Wild Flamingo, Bluff, September 7. Fua Kavenga,'- Tauranga, Sepj tember 8. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Ayon, Timaru, noon today. iVishva Bindu, -Wellington, to- | morrow. I Coastal Trader," Dunedin, September L i H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki, Dunedin, September 1. Coastal Trader, Auckland, September 3. A: ‘ Union Hobart, Dunedin, September 3. Ngakuta, Nelson, September'4. Union Hobar,t., Wellington," September's; t Fua Kavenga, Napier, September 8. , ~.. VESSELS IN PORT Ayon, No. 3 East.