Rearrangement of N.D.L. Shipping: New Guinea and Solomons
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Rearrangement Of
N.D.L. SHIPPING New Guinea and Solomons TOURING the month, Messrs. Gilchrist, Watt and Sanderson Limited, Sydney agents for the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, issued a new timetable, which shows the new arrangements for carrying on the N.D.L. shipping service between Hong Kong and New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Formerly, two steamships, the Bremerinaven and the Friderun, ran between Hong Kong and numerous New Guinea and Solomon Islands ports on a regular schedule. The new shipping law in New Guinea, however, forbids oversea ships to call at small ports in New Guinea—they are restricted to “proclaimed” ports (see P.I.M. of December). This made a reorganisation of the service necessary.
The Bremerhaven has been taken over from the N.D.L. by interests connected with Messrs. Colyer, Watson and Company of Rabaul, and a company for this purpose has been formed under the name of Inter-Island Shipping Co. (Pty.), Limited.
The vessel has been placed under the British flag and registered as the Island Trader. She will operate only between New Guinea ports in future and will connect regularly with the Friderun at Rabaul.
The Friderun will maintain a sevenweekly service between Hong Kong, the “proclaimed” ports of New Guinea (where she will connect with the Island Trader), and Tulagi and a number of small ports in the Solomon Islands.
The Friderun will leave Hong Kong on the new service on February 13 and the Island Trader will commence her new inter-island service when she sails out of