Business
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The Forum
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managing agent in New Zealand and will be respon sible for co-ordinating all PFL requirements and operations out of New Zealand. The cor poration is represented in Auckland, Tauranga, Napier,
Wellington, Lyttelton and
Dunedin and Union Steam Ship Company is also agent for PFL services from Auckland to Fiji, the Samoas and Tonga.
Following discussions with the Forum Line with the object
of avoiding ‘over-tonnaging’,
the Union Steam Ship Company has withdrawn its roll-on, roll-off ship Marama
The Pacific Forum Line, the South Pacific Islands’ own shipping line, is in business following a meeting late in October at Apia of the direc tors and the Regional Shipping Council, when arrangements were made for establishing re gional offices and for co operating with the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and the Shipping Cor
poration of New Zealand.
WaS ec^ec * at Apia meeting to maintain the head office at Apia but open a Wellington (NZ) office under Mr Colin Small, the finance manager, to handle freight and accounts. A regional office will be opened in Sydney early in 1980. A Fiji office is already operating under Mr Ormond Eyre. Head office at Apia will contain the management, commercial and operational
departments.
The Shipping Corporation of NZ is the Forum Line’s
Forum Samoa sets sail on her delivery voyage to the Islands.
from the Islands’ routes to make way for the Forum Line’s new roll-on, roll-off container ship Forum Samoa, the very latest in container ships which has been built in Hamburg, West Germany, for the West ern Samoa Government under West Germany’s economic co operation programme.
Samoan Shipping Services Ltd has chartered the Forum Samoa to the PFL. The ship, of 6000-tonne dwt, left Europe early in November with a full load of cargo for Pacific Island ports. She will off-load soyabean oil in Fiji, pipes for the Western Samoa hydro electric scheme and general cargo for Papeete and Noumea. Celebrations had been arranged to welcome Forum Samoa at various ports.
She was expected to begin her first South Pacific trading voy age on December 13.
Officers and a crew from
West Germany have sailed
Forum Samoa from West Ger many and it is expected that they will remain with her until i Samoan crew has been trained.
West Germany has also pro dded for Tonga under similar
arrangements, another ship,
Fuya Kavenga, sister ship to
Forum Samoa. The Fuya Kavenga, was scheduled to sail Tom Europe on December 5,
and she is expected to bring a full cargo to the Islands. She will then operate on Forum Line routes. • The Forum Line has stres sed that it will honour all exist ing freight contracts with the Union Steam Ship Company.
Vikings head
into Pacific
Royal Viking Line vessels will make three holiday cruises covering a number of South Pacific ports in 1980 and early 1981. The Royal Viking Star leaves Los Angeles on January 7 for San Francisco, Papeete, Moorea, Nukualofa, Auckland, Hobart, Sydney, Suva, Apia and Honolulu, returning to Los Angeles on February 22. The same vessel will sail from San Francisco on December 13 for Los Angeles, Honolulu, Bora Bora, Moorea, Papeete, Nuku hiva and San Francisco, return ing to Los Angeles on January 8, 1981.
The Royal Viking Sky, on a Pacific circle cruise leaving Los Angeles on February 12, 1980, will call at San Francisco, Papeete, Moorea, Rarotonga, Auckland, Wellington, Picton (NZ), Sydney, Cairns, several Southeast-Asian ports, Hono lulu, Lahaina (Hawaii) and San Francisco.
Mr Brian S. Cole, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company since January, 1972, will retire next April after almost 44 years with the company, and, In the interim, will be executive director. Deputy general manager Mr David C. Jury (left) becomes chief general man ager and Mr David A. Graham, manager, branches, (right) will be general manager, stevedoring and agency division. Mr Jury joined the company in New Plymouth in 1942 and has held successive man agement posts at head office in recent years. Mr Graham has held senior management positions at Wellington and in the Islands.