SHIPS OUT IN BALLAST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 3

SHIPS OUT IN BALLAST

MOTOR VESSELS VIA CAPE HORN It is already evident that the drastic curtailment of Hie Dominion’s import trade will necessitate the, bringing out of a fairly large amount of shipping tonnage in ballast this year to lift- the fargg quantities of dippy produce, wool, frozep gieat and other cargo for shipment to Britain. Airmidy, in addition tp scyeral ships that huyi? come across from Australia to load' Homewards in New Zealand, SB largo ships have left Britain in ist for the Dominion, and several more will be bn their way shortly. ■"Another feature of thV shipping trade if''that“a number of vessels arc being diver.tecj froth 'the Panama ’Canal route, and tiro making their homeward run 'to London via Cape Horn. Noticeably is this the, case with motor-ships, which in the past- have invariably gone via the Panama Canal. The first motorship to travel from New Zealand to London via Cape Horn was the N.Z. Slipping Co.’s Opavyn, which sailed fate in August, and made a call at Dakar, West Africa, for oil-fpel supplies. This route is also to be taken by the motor-ships Zealandic, sailing from 4uckiand on November' 3, the Port Alhui, sailing from Auckland on tietober 31, and the Coptic, leaving Napier on November 24.