Shipping Information
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SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI/TAHITI ■ UK Chandris Lines maintains a twice-monthly passenger service from Sydney via NZ, Suva or Papeete.
Details from Chandris Lines, 135 King Street, Sydney (28-2451).
SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS - NORFOLK IS Somacal operates 25-day service from Sydney to Lord Howe and Norfolk Is.
Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301).
Chargeurs Caledoniens operates three-weekly cargo service Sydney-Norfoik Island-Noumea.
Details: Hetherington Kingsbury Pty Ltd, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).
SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - HAWAII -
Canada - Us
P and 0 liners call at Auckland, Suva and Honolulu on eastbound and westbound voyages between Sydney and the US.
Details from P & 0 Australia Ltd, 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).
SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - TONGA ■ VILA -
Noumea - Samoas - Tahiti
Shaw Savill liners cruise in the Pacific sailing from Australia and New Zealand calling at Suva, Lautoka, Tonga, Vila, Noumea, Pago Pago, Tahiti, Apia, Vavau.
Details: Shaw Savill Line, 8a Castlereagh St, Sydney (232-3844).
Sitmar Cruises operates a South Pacific cruise programme to include most of the above ports plus the Solomons.
Details from Sitmar Line (Australia) Pty Ltd, 22-30 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4521).
Royal Viking Line, with luxury cruise ships Royal Viking Sea, Star and Sky, cruises the Pacific from Sydney, calling at most of the above ports plus Port Moresby and Rarotonga.
Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty Ltd, 13-15 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0517).
P & 0 liners Oronsay, Oriana and Arcadia call at Suva, Honiara, Pago Pago, Auckland, Vila, Noumea, Honolulu, Nukualofa, Vavau, Savusavu, Jakarta and Bali regularly on cruises from Australia.
Details from P & 0 Australia Ltd, 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).
Australia - New Caledonia
Sofrana-Unilines operates a fortnightly service from Sydney to Noumea.
Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031).
Australia - New Caledonia -
New Hebrides
Sofrana-Unilines' shins call regularly at Sydney, Noumea and Vila.
Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031) and Burns Philp and Co Ltd, 340 Collins Street, Melbourne (67-8941).
Polynesie maintains three-weekly passenger sailings—Sydney, Noumea, Vila and Santo.
Details from Omni Traders & Brokers Pty Limited, 261 George Street, Sydney (241-2872/6).
Australia - Fiji
Sofrana-Unilines operates Sydney-Fiji every 28 days.
Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031).
Nauru Pacific Line operates cargo/passenger service to Fiji and South Pacific ports.
Details from Nauru Pacific Line, 227 Collins Street, Melbourne (654-4977); Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522); Dalgety Shipping, 291 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane (31-0331).
Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd operates three weekly cargo services from Sydney to Suva and Lautoka.
Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301.; Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke St, Melbourne (600731); Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.
Australia - Tahiti
South Pacific United Lines has three vessels, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Krohn Trader, maintaining six weekly service Sydney/Papeete.
Details from Omni Traders & Brokers Prv Limited, 261 George Street, Sydney (241-2872/61.
Australia - Png
Containers Pacific Express (Burns Philp and AWP Line) operates four-weekly cargo service from Melbourne (direct) with Milos & Samos and Sydney and Brisbane to Lae and Port Moresby with Nimos.
Details from Burns, Philp & Co Ltd, 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (241-3816).
Australia - Png - Bsip
New Guinea Australia Line's vessels operate from Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavieng, Honiara, Kieta, Gizo, Madang and Samarai.
Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).
New Guinea Express Lines with two ships operates three-weekly Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul.
Details from New Guinea Express Lines, 37 Pitt St, Sydney (241-1396) and 72 Eagle St, Brisbane (21-9333), Westralian Farmers Trans port Pty Ltd, 459 Collins St, Melbourne (35-4366), Breckwoldt's Shipping Agencies in Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul.
Karlander New Guinea Line's two cargo vessels call at Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kimbe.
Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301); Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke St, Melbourne (600731).
Australia - Marshall Islands -
Guam
Nauru Pacific Line operates monthly con ventional/container service Melbourne/Sydney to New Guinea, Guam and Micronesia.
Details from Nauru Pacific Line, 227 Collins Street, Melbourne (654-4977); Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).
Australia - Png - Far East
E. and A. Line passenger ships make monthly round voyages from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane calling at Port Moresby, Manila, Hong Kong, Keelung, Kobe, Yokohama (Tokyo), and Rabaul.
Details from P & 0 Australia Ltd, 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).
FAR EAST - FIJI - NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Unit Express (CNC, MOL, RIL) operates a three-weekly cargo service from Hong Kong to Lautoka, Suva, NZ ports, Manila, Kaoshiung, Keelung, Hong Kong.
Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).
Royal Inferocean Lines operates monthly pass enger/cargo service with three ships from NZ to Bangkok, Pt Kelang, Singapore, Djakarta to Fiji (alt. months) ana NZ.
Details from Interocean Australia Services 261 George Street, Sydney (2-0573), Burns Philp (SS' r o itd Suva and Lautoka.
Ben Shipping Pty Ltd, with Liverpool Clipper, operates monthly cargo service between Singa pore and Suva.
Details from Seatrans (Fiji) Ltd.
FAR EAST - PNG - BSI - NEW HEBRIDES •
Noumea • Tahiti - Samoa
China Navigation Co's vessels operate e reauiar carao service from Hong Kong te Rabaul. Wewak. Madang, Lae, Port Moresby Honiara. New heondes, Noumea, Papeete and aamoa.
Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).
North Europe - New Caledonia
Hamburg/Sued operates monthly carge services from Dunkirk and Le Havre to Noumea, via Panama.
Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (29-2101).
Messageries Maritimes operates five carge services a month from north and Mediterranean European ports to Papeete and Noumea.
Details from Messageries Maritimes, 332 Pitt Street, Sydney (61-6664).
JAPAN - GUAM - FIJI - SAMOA ■
N Caledonia - N Hebrides
Daiwa Line runs a monthly cargo service from Japan via Guam to Suva, Lautoka, Pago Pago, Apia, Vila, Santo and Noumea.
Details from Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva TONGA - SAMOA - FIJI - AUSTRALIA Pacific Navigation Co Ltd operates a monthly cargo service between Nukualofa, Apia, Suva and Lautoka to Sydney.
Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt St, Sydney (27-6301).
NZ - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOAS -
Tahiti
Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand operates a fully containerised service Auckland,
or Onehunga, Suva, Pago Pago, Apia and Nukualofa every 14 days.
A service is operated Auckland, or Onehunga, Lautoka, Suva, Auckland approximately every two weeks.
A 28-day service is operated from Auckland to Papeete.
Details from any office of the Union Steam Ship Co, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Auckland.
Nz - Norfolk
USS Co vessels operate 26-day cargo service Auckland, Suva, Norfolk Is, Auckland.
Details from Union Steam Ship Co of NZ Ltd. PO Box 12, Auckland.
NZ - N CALEDONIA - N HEBRIDES - FIJI - WALLIS IS - NG - BSIP Sofrana Unilines with four ships operates to Vila and Santo; to Honiara and New Guinea; and to Noumea.
Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 42 Customs Street, Auckland (73-279), P.O. Box 3614.
Telex: NZ 2313.
Nz - Fiji - Us
Crusader cargo ships call at Suva, Levuka and Honolulu on NZ-US west coast trips and at Suva and/or Lautoka on US-NZ southbound trips.
Details from Blue Star Port Lines (Manage ment) Ltd, P.O. Box 192 Wellington (70179).
Nz - Fiji
Fijian Swift and M.V. La Bonita operate a regular 18 day service from Auckland to Suva and Lautoka.
Details from Reef Shipping Agencies Ltd, P.O. Box 13-315, Onehunga, NZ. (Phone 663- 918, 663-928).
UK - PANAMA - SAMOA - FIJI The Fiji Direct Service, cargo only, is main tained by Conference vessels, sailing at regular
monthly intervals out of London, via Panama, for Apia, Suva and Lautoka.
Details from Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva.
UK - PNG - BSIP - GEIC - N HEBRIDES ■
N Caledonia
Bank Line operates a monthly direct cargo service from Europe, via the Panama Canal to Papeete, Noumea, major PNG ports and Honiara, occasionally to Tarawa, Vila, Santo, Kieta, Jayapura and Yandina.
Details from Bank Line (A'asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York St, Sydney (27-2041).
Us - Samoa - Australia
Pacific Far East Line operates a three weekly freighter service from Pacific coast ports to Pago Pago, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and Brisbane, returning via Auckland, Pago Pago, to Pacific northwest ports, Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. (No passengers carried).
Details from PFEL, 50 Young Street, Sydney (27-4272).
US - SYDNEY ■ GEIC ■ HONOLULU Columbus Lines operates a three weekly container cargo sailing from West Coast, US to Australasia, returning via Tarawa, GEIC and Honolulu to Nth America.
Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (29-2101).
Us - Fiji/Tahiti - Australia
Bank Line Ltd operate regular cargo set vices from US Gulf ports to Australia and NZ.
Calls at Suva, Lautoka and Papeete on demand.
Details from Bank Line (A/asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York St, Sydney (27-204).
Pacific Far East Line cruise ships operate regularly from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Moorea, Papeete, Rarotonga, Auck land, Opua, Sydney, and return via Suva,
Niuafoou, Pago Pago and Honolulu to Sane Francisco.
Freight is carried on these passenger linersz Details from PFEL, 50 Young Street, Sydneys (27-4272).
Us - Tahiti - Samoa
Pacific Islands Transport operates i five/six weekly cargo service from North American west coast ports to Papeete, Pag«£ Pago, Apia.
Details from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty Ltdb 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2441).
Us Commission
To Decide Rate Rise
The US Federal Maritime Comr mission will decide the extent, ii any, of a rise in freight rates fox the Pacific Islands Transport Limi between the US west coast ano, Hawaii and American Samoa. An. increase, proposed by the line, hai been opposed by the Americau Samoa Government and locas merchants.
FMC’s Bureau of Hearing counsel, Donald J. Brunner and C Douglass Miller, at a public hearing urged approval of a proposed ris<{ of 23 per cent. They said that withe out the increase, PITL would bx forced to curtail its services t«: American Samoa.