Shipping news Dredges refurbished

Press, 23 September 1983, Page 8

Shipping news Dredges refurbished

While one dredge is in dry dock at Lyttelton, another is preparing to start work after a 10-week lay-up. In the dry dock is the Taranaki Harbour Board dredge Ngamotu, which is scheduled to stay there for her regular spruce up until September 30. She is not alone in the dock, the tug Lyttelton is also there being made shipshape for the forthcoming summer cruising season. After work has finished on these vessels, the next vessel scheduled for the dock is the Timaru Harbour Board tug Aorangi. Meanwhile, the Lyttelton outer-harbour dredge Peraki will next week start to work up steam for a return to work. Sne began her customary annual lay-up on July 18, and since then crew members have carried out. regular maintenance and painted and cleaned her.

Harbour Board engineers estimate that the board has saved'more than $lOO,OOO in fuel costs alone from her lay-

up. Mr Malcolm Jones, the board's resident engineer in Lyttelton, says the Peraki will probably not resume dredging until Thursday. She will have to refuel, get steam up, and have some minor adjustments before she can return to work. ARRIVALS Spirit of Free Enterprise (7 a.m.), 1204, Wellington (Pacifica). * Soyuz-5 (7.30 a.m.), 2690, sea (Scales). Aleksandrovsk (3 p.m.), 2177, sea (Scales). DEPARTURES Capitaine La Perouse (11.10 a.m.), 2374, Auckland (Seatrans). Soyuz-5 (2.30 pm.), 2690, sea (Scales). Spirit of Free Enterprise (4.30 p.m.), 1204, Wellington (PacificaL

EXPECTED ARRIVALS Klimovo, sea, today (7.30 a.m.). Kazalinsk, sea, today (3 p.m.). Spirit of Free Enterprise, Wgtn, tomorrow. Tolaga Bay, Australia, to-

morrow. Tasman Enterprise, Taur, Sep-

tember 25. Coastal Trader, Auck, September 26. Haruna Maru, Singapore, Sep-

tember 26. Southland Star, Suva, September 26. Holmdale, Chathams, September 26. Spirit of Free Enterprise, Wgtn, September 27. Darwin Trader, Wgtn, September 27. Union Sydney, Wgtn, September 27. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Aleksandrovsk, sea, today (7 a.m.). Klimovo, sea, today (3 p.m.). Baupre Island, Taur, today (4 p.m.). Kazalinsk, sea, tomorrow.

Spirit of Free Enterprise, Wgtn, September 25. Tolaga Bay, Wgtn, September 25.

Coastal Trader, Dndn, September 26. Spirit of Free Enterprise, Wgtn, September 27. Darwin Trader, Dndn, September 27. Union Sydney, Dndn, September 27.

VESSELS IN PORT Baupre Island, No. 2 East. Reefer Badger, No. 3 West. Ngamotu, dry dock. Lyttelton, dry dock. Aleksandrovsk, oil wharf.

Akmolinsk (2.15 p.m.), 2654, sea (Turnbull). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Eastern Reefer, Singapore, today (3 p.m.). Lalandia, Nap, September 29.Eagle Arrow, Auck, September 30. Antar, Auck, October 26. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Star Castor, sea, today. Lalandia, Melb, September 29. Eagle Arrow, Nap, September 30. Binsnes, Hamb, October 1. Eastern Reefer, Russia, October 10. Antar, Nap, October 26. VESSELS IN PORT Binsnes, No. 2 North. Star Castor, North Mole.