North Sky in debut as new

servant of Pacific ports

Ships

2000-tonne trader. North , has begun a new service yeen Australia and Pacific s, including Fiji, the Tonga onicle reports, fhe vessel’s captain is Mr C.

Hill-Willis, former general lager of Pacific Navigation Ltd. fhe ship is beginning a new ing venture for Pacific Salt Ltd of Whyalla, South tralia. She was owned nerly by Australian Nation .ines and was used as a bulk n carrier around the Aus an coast. since July, the ship has been ted from grain carrier to ;ral cargo vessel. She has undergone a name change m North Esk ) and a flag nge, as she is now registered 'onga.

North Sky will also carry ntities of steel products.

She is now owned by the rseas-based West Pacific pping Co and is on longterm rter to Pacific Salt.

The manager of Pacific Salt Whyalla, Bob Morris, said ship would establish one of first regular trade links with iga. He said shipments of and steel products would from Whyalla every two nths, calling at Port Mores and ports in Fiji and omon Islands, as well as iga.

He said the salt products aid include cooking and le salt, as well as larger mtities of other grades for in canneries, and bakeries.

STRIKE by owners of small ps servicing the inter-island

ites in French Polynesia

ted in September after more in two months.

IE FRENCH oceanographic

>sel, Le Suroit, was in peete in September as part its work on the Pacific No

les Co-operation project

aducted by France, West

;rmany and the United ites. Aim of the operation is to compare seabed mineral dules in various represen ive areas of the North and uth Pacific.