New Service
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Ex Auckland
A new shipping service to the Pacific Islands and East Asia started out of Auckland in November. The service is run by Japan’s Daiwa Line, which sails a modem fleet of multi purpose container ships. For a start the service is two
monthly, employing two ships.
John N. Keegan (above) has
been appointed managing direc
tor and chief executive of Union Steam Ship Company. He re joins the company’s head office at Wellington after four years in North America. As chief execu tive Mr Keegan succeeds Sir Peter Abeles who has relinquished this post, although he will continue as chairman of directors. Mr Keegan joined the Union Company in 1972 and in 1976 was appointed executive vice-president of the New York based Acme Fast Freight and later of the trans-Atlantic con tainer firm Trans-Freight Lines, both associates of the TNT or ganisation.