ROUND CAPE HORN

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23315, 26 September 1945, Page 6

ROUND CAPE HORN

All British Shinning (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. An order diverting shipping from the Panama Canal route has been issued by the British Ministry of War Transport. The Ministry’s representative in New Zealand, Sir Alexander Roberts, has received advice that ships returning from New Zealand to Britain must travel via Cape Horn. Instructions with a similar purpose have been issued to the Ministry’s Australian representative. Shipping between New Zealand and Britain travelling through the Panama Canal has been paying canal dues in dollar currency at the rate of nearly £300.600 sterling a year. Shipping between Australia and Britain has involved a much greater sum. The payment of dues has been made in London. While the Ministry’s order remains in force, shipping from New Zealand will therefore revert to the old “round the Horn” route. Homeward-bound oil burners and diesel vessels from Australia will also travel vie Cape Horn, but coal-burners from Australia will go via South Africa. Outward-bound oil burners and diesel vessels travelling to Australia will come through the Suez Canal and coal burners via the Cape. Travelling round Cape Horn vessels will require no more than about two days longer than I hey would on the journey via the Panama Canal, therefore no serious dislocation >f shinnin® schedules is likelv