Shipping Briefs
p. 87 · Read in the full issue
• Pacific Islands visited by P and ip liners on holiday cruises should
benefit from a decision to cut down the number of line voyages from the UK to Australia in 1973, A cutback from 14 to four voyages will enable P and O to concentrate on cruises.
Four of the company’s 11 liners will cruise from Australia to the Pacific Islands. Worldwide, P and O expects the new policy to increase the num- SL^ erths r 5 rUlS^u Pa ?^?Ann S *° com P 150,000 in • The Flotta Lauro Line has withdrawn from the Pacific because of competition from airlines. Two 24,000-ton liners, Angelina Lauro and Achille Lauro, will now operate
Caribbean and Mediterranean ser vices. But Flotta Lauro ships will re turn to the Pacific if passenger traffic improves. The line has been in the Europe-Australia-New Zealand service for 25 years, * A South Korean sampan is still fast on a reef near F i ower Pot island, American Samoa, where she went aground two years ago. A recent at tempt by two tugs, the Talitaga and Tatoso, to pull her off, failed. After the cable attached to the Tatoso parted, the tugs tried to pull the sampan off in tandem. It has not yet been decided if another attempt will be made.