AUSTRALIA SLOW IN UNLOADING SHIPS.
DUTCH CAPTAIN TELLS OF EUROPEAN METHODS. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received January 4, 9.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 4. Captain Van der Laan. master of the Holland-Australia steamer Aldebaran. which arrived from Rotterdam, discuss ed the very modern methods in operation at Rotterdam for loading and unloading ships. He said that for moving coal they had huge iron grips, electrically driven, and capable of lifting fifteen tons each grip. Eleven thousand tons of coal were discharged from his ship in 24 hours before coming to Australia On another occasion 11.000 tons of bulk wheat were discharged in 20 hours. Grain was discharged by floating elevators, which sucked it out of holds into lighters. His ship this trip brought 4500 tons of British coal to Adelaide. There the unloading process provided a sharp contrast to that in use in the Continental port, the work occupying si.\ days in Australia.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 4 January 1930, Page 1
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