Shipping Briefs
pp. 124-125 · Read in the full issue
• the eastern side of Rarotonga’s Avatiu harbour is being extended 121 ft, and deepened to 16 ft to provide a berth for an oil tanker for the Cook Islands major port.
Avatiu’s existing bulk fuel depot lies in the flight path of aircraft which will use the proposed jetport and plans are to re-site the depot a mile further up the coast and also install bigger tanks. ® Steamships Trading Company’s 13th coastal vessel in New Guinea, Naime Dogodo, made her first ap pearance in Port Moresby recently.
Named after a longtime Steamies’ skipper, the vessel was built by Rabaul businessman, Mr. Henry Chan and her operations will be around the Papuan coast. Her master is Frank Doura. • New Guinea Administration vessel Koro recently put in a stay on the Madang slipway for repairs to her hull and keel following a grounding of 22 hours on a reef north of Saidor.
• Sydney-based architects Richard T. Ross and Associates have designed a 50 ft motor vessel under construc tion for Mr. Hans Beier of Asuramba copra plantation, outside Madang, New Guinea. The vessel will have a cargo capacity of up to 40 tons, • The US Federal Maritime Com mission is currently surveying the freight rate structures, passenger operations and accounting systems of MILI, the official shipper on internal US Trust Territory and US-Japan- Trust Territory shipping runs.
A San Francisco executive from the commission, Mr. John Speer, was recently in Saipan carrying out the survey at the request of TT Director of Transportation, Mr. Ken Allen. • Bums Philp Commodore Brett Hilder will give a talk called “The Navigation of Captain Cook” at the Australian Institute of Navigation’s 20th anniversary convention, at Sydney’s University of New South Wales, starting October 10. Con vention tickets are available from the secretary, Royal Australian Naval House, 32 Grosvenor Street, Sydney. • A research vessel, Alpha Helix, has arrived in Madang, New Guinea, from San Diego, California, to aid 66 scientists from the US, Australia, Japan, Indonesia. France and Malaysia who are studying behavious patterns of local mammals and birds.
The 133 ft vessel will be in Madang waters for several weeks. • Mr. Jim McKinnon, Papua-New Guinea’s House of Assembly member for the Middle Ramu (Open), will
use a 50 ft ferroconcrete canoe he has had built for general purpose
work up the Sepik River. The boat was built by a new firm, Madang Ferroconcrete Industries, which holds orders for three other boats —another canoe for Mr. McKinnon and two 33 ft workboats for local government councils at Bogia and Manam Island. • The Auckland Exporter has been calling regularly at Honiara for cargo from New Zealand every five or six weeks since last November, and has trebled the amount of cargo brought to the Solomons on her first visit. Present indications are that the volume of goods will increase even more.
This is Karlander's latest addition to the Australia-New Guinea service. The "Sala maua" is Karlander's seventh ship on the run and handles unitised and pre-slung cargo, calling initially at two major NG ports. She is expected there in October.
She has a deadweight capacity of 3,470 tons, overall length is 345 ft 1 in. and is 47 ft 6 in. wide. Service speed is 15 knots and in addition to conventional handling methods, forklift trucks are carried on board to transfer cargo simul taneously to holds and 'tween decks.