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New Shipping Service Next Month
COMMENCING December 2, a new shipping service known as the New Guinea Australia Line and operated by G. S. Yuill and Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney, will provide an additional three-weekly link with Papua-New Guinea.
Two modern motorships, Shansi (3,147 tons, built in 1947) and Sinkiang (3,019 tons, built 1946), with accommodation for 21 and 14 passengers respectively, will maintain the service. Cargo capacity of each is nearly 4,000 tons, including re frigerated space. Both are well appointed, and carry heavy lift gear.
They will call at Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang and Rabaul, returning to Australia via Pt. Moresby.
Shansi will inaugurate the service on December 2, followed by Sinkiang on December 19. Fares and freights will be similar to the existing Burns Philp line rates.
Owned by the English-controlled China Navigation Co., Ltd., both vessels until recently were on the Hong Kong - Japan - Saigon run, operated by the large Far East shipping, aviation and insurance con cern, Butterfield and Swire.
Agents for the new line are: Steamships Trading Co., Ltd., in Papua, and Colyer Watson (NG, Ltd,, in New Guinea.
MV Shansi.