Join Us’, Tonga
p. 65 · Read in the full issue
Invites Columbus
The Government of Tonga has invited the West German-based Hamburg-Sued/Columbus Line to form a jointly-owned shipping line.
Tonga’s aim is to have the domestic fleet upgraded and to establish and run a Pacific and international fleet.
A spokesman for the Columbus Line in Sydney said, “We are having a look at it. It is very much open. It will be a couple of months before anything is known**.
Hamburg-Sued operates a monthly
cargo service from Dunkirk and Le Havre to Noumea. Columbus Line is well known in the Pacific. For several years Columbus Line ships called at the Gilbert Islands with container cargo while on the way from Australia to the US west coast.