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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1980Vol. 51, No. 4

Services

pp. 71-73 · Read in the full issue

Shipping

Should any shipping company wish to have its services cargo and passenger included in these list ings they should contact PIM.

Australia - Fiji

Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd operates monthly cargo services from Sydney to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301), Oalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke Street, Melbourne (60-0731), Burns Philp (SS) Do Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

Sofrana-Unilines (Fiji Express Line) operates to Suva and Lautoka every hree weeks from the main ports on the jast coast of Australia and monthly to .autoka from Melbourne and Sydney.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney, (27-2031), Trans \ustral Shipping Pty Ltd, 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162), ACTA Pty .td, Brisbane (221-3116), Elder-ANL >ty Ltd, Port Adelaide (47-5688), ANL, Newcastle (049-24364), Clements & Marshall, Burnie, Tasmania 31-1833).

Australia - Fiji - Samoas -

New Hebrides - Tonga -

Norfolk Island

Pacific Navigation of Tonga operates i five-weekly refrigerated general car lo/container service from Sydney and

Brisbane to Vila, Santo, Suva, Lautoka, Apia, Pago Pago, Nukualofa and Nor folk Island.

Details from Beaufort Shipping Agency Co, 2 Castlereagh Street, Syd ney (239-1022).

Australia - Fiji - Samoas -

Tonga

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully containerised service (Gen /Reefer) from Melbourne, Sydney to Lautoka, Suva, Pago Pago, Apia and Nuku’alofa.

Funafuti cargo transhipped at Suva.

Details from Union Bulkships, Syd ney; ANL Melbourne; Burns Philp, Lau toka and Suva; Polynesia Shipping Services, Pago Pago; Burns Philp, Apia; and Union Steamships Co, Nuku’alofa; or Pacific Forum Line, Head Office, Apia.

Australia - Lord Howe Is -

Norfolk Is

Compagnie des Chargeurs Caledoniens operates four-weekly cargo service Sydney - Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.

Details Hetherington Kingsbury Pty Ltd, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).

Australia - Nauru -

Kiribati

Nauru Pacific Line operates regular cargo/passenger service from Mel bourne to Nauru and Tarawa.

Details: Nauru Pacific Line, Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne (653-5709), Nedlloyd Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (2-0522).

Australia - New Caledonia

(And/Or) New Hebrides

Karlander operates a monthly service from Sydney to Noumea.

Details: Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd. 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301).

Sofrana-Unilines ships serve Noumea every three weeks from the

main ports along the east Australian coast - Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031), Trans- Austral Shipping Pty Ltd, 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162), ACTA Pty Ltd, Brisbane (221-3116), Elders-ANL Ry Ltd, Port Adelaide (47-5688), ANL, Newcastle (049-24364), Clements & Marshall Burnie, Tasmania Compagnie des Chargeurs Caledoniens operates a three-weekly containerised cargo service from Sydney to Noumea. y Details Hetherington Kingsbury Pty Ltd 37-49 Pitt Strppt qjrinpv (27-1671) 1 V Compagnie Generate Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Noumea, Port Vila and Santo using a self-sustained fully containerised vessel.

Details Compagnie Generate Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

Daiwa Line operates 30 day service from Sydney to Vila and Santo Details Meridian Shipping & Transport Agencies Pty Ltd, Box 3410 GPO Sydney 2001 (290-1633) Tlx AA25970. '

Australia -N7 Fi Ii

Hawaii -Us

p &O liners call at Auckland, Suva, Honolulu and Vancouver on eastbound and westbound voyages between Sydney and the US 1 Details from P & O Booking Centre, World Travel Headquarters Pty Ltd, 33 Bligh Street, Sydney (231-6655). 71 v ’

AUSTRALIA - NZ - FIJI - TONGA - N. HEBRIDES - NOUMEA - PNG -

Solomons - Samoas

Sitmar Cruises operates a year-round cruise programme to include most of the above countries.

Details from Sitmar Cruises, 47 Elizabeth Street, Sydney (232-7511).

P & O liners call at Auckland, Bay of Islands, Honiara, Lautoka, Noumea, Nukualofa. Pago Pago, Papeete, Port Moresby, Santo, Savusavu, Suva, Vavau and Vila on cruises from Aus tralia.

Details from P & O Booking Centre.

World Travel Headquarters Pty Ltd, 33 Bligh Street, Sydney (231-6655).

Australia - Micronesia

N f uru Pacific Lin f operata ® a re 9 ular M ® lb< ? ur £ e t 0 Kosrae ' Ponape, Truk, Guam a ndSapan n . w P^S ,f,C * 4 r ] e ; K NaUrU House, 80 Collins Street. Melbourne, (653-5709). Nedlloyd Swire. 8 Spring street ' Sy f I na^?' 9 f 22^

. Australia - Png

New Guinea Express Lines operates three-weekly conventional and con tainer services Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Al ° tau - , Details from New Guinea Express k£ es, « P 0 Box R73 ' Royal Exchange PG ' Sydney (241-3991) MacArthur Shipping Agency Co, 82-92 Eagle Street, Brisbane (229-3777), New Guinea Express Lines, 327 Collins Street, Melbourne (61-3053), Niugini Express Lines in Port Moresby (21-4572). Lae (42-1536), Rabtrad Pty Ltd. Rabaul (92-2911) n, m S ,evedonn 9 & Tsport M . ...

Karlander New Guinea Line s cargo r sala caN at Me'bourne. Sydney. Port K?L !: ae, D K Ma ? a D 9 ’ 'J /awak - Manus. Kimbe Rabaul, Popondetta Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd 19-31 Pitt Street. Sydney (27-6301), Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke Street, Melbourne (60-0731).

Australia-Png-Solomons

A consortium of Conpac NGAL/PNGL have three container vessels operating on a 28 day turn around from Melbourne, Sydney and

Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Kieta and Honiara supplemented by Daiwa vessels, Pacific Princess and Fiji Maru extending from Sydney to Lae on a monthly basis.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd. 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (2-0547) and Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Syd ney. (2-0522).

Australia - Solomons -

Kiribati - Micronesia

Daiwa Line operates a container ser vice every 30 days from Sydney to Honiara, Kieta, Tarawa and Guam. Gizo cargoes transhipped at Honiara, Saipan, cargoes transhipped at Kobe.

Details Meridian Shipping & Trans port Agencies Pty Ltd, Box 3410 GPO Sydney 2001 (290-1633), Tlx.

AA25970.

Australia - Solomons -

Northern Marianas-Taiwan

Japan

Daiwa Line offers a four-weekly ser vice Sydney-Honiara-Guam-Taiwan- Japan with transhipment at Kobe for Saipan.

Details Meridian Shipping & Trans port Agencies Pty Ltd, Box 3410 GPO, Sydney 2001 (290-1633). Tlx.

AA25970.

Australia - Tahiti

Compagnie Generate Maritime oper ates a monthly service from Sydney to Papeete using a self-sustained fully containerised vessel.

Details Compagnie Generate Mari time, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231 -3700).

Australia - Tonga -

Samoas - Tahiti

Karlander operates a monthly cargo service from Melbourne and Sydney to Nuku'alofa, Apia, Papeete, US west coast.

Details: Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd,

19-31 Pitt Street. Sydney (27-6301)

Australia - W. Samoa

Compagnie Generate Maritime oper ates a monthly service from Sydney to Apia, using a self-sustained fully con tainerised vessel.

Details Compagnie Generate Mari time, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

Far East - Fiji - New

Zealand

New Zealand Unit Express (NZUE) operates a fortnightly palletised cargo service from Manila, Keelung, Kaoshiung and Hong Kong to Lautoka, Suva and thence to NZ.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, Suva (312-244), Burns Philp, Suva (311-777), P & O S.N. Co, Wellington (736-477) or Nedlloyd Swire Pty Ltd, Sydney (20-522).

Nedlloyd operates bi-weekly cargo service with four ships from Sourabaya, Jakarta, Bangkok, Port Kelang and Singapore to Suva and NZ ports.

Details from Nedlloyd (Aust) Pty Ltd, 8 Spring St, Sydney (27 3801), Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

Far East - Mid-S. Pacific

China Navigation’s New Guinea Pa cific Line (NGPL) operates a regular cargo service from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Manila, Port Kelang and Singapore to Wewak, Madang, Kimbe, Rabaul, Kieta, Lae, Port Moresby, Honiara, Santo, Vila, Noumea, Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Tarawa and Nauru.

Details from Steamships Trading Co., Port Moresby (21-2000).

Kyowa Shipping Ltd, operates monthly services from Hong Kong, Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan, to Guam, Saipan, Solomons, New Caledonia, Fiji, Western and American Samoa, Tahiti, Cook Is., Tonga and New Hebrides.

Details: Hetherington Kingsbury Pty Ltd, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).

Daiwa Line operates 30-day service from Moji, Kobe, Nagoya and Yokohama to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Lautoka. Noumea, Sydney!

Honiara, Kieta, Tarawa, Guam and Taiwan.

Details: Meridian Shipping & Trans port Agencies Pty Ltd, Box 3410 GPO Sydney 2001 (290-1633) Tlx AA25970.

Japan - Fiji - New Zealand

China Navigation, operates a monthly service from main ports Japan to Suva and Lautoka and thence Noumea and NZ.

Details from Carpenters Shipping Suva (312-244).

Japan - Png

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines operates a monthly service from main ports Japan and Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kieta and Kimbe.

Details from J. C. Waller. Port Moresby (21-1755).

JAPAN - GUAM - FIJI - TAHITI -

Samoa - N. Caledonia -

Solomons - Kiribati

Daiwa Lines runs a monthly cargo service from Japan via Guam to Lau toka, Suva, Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Sydney, Noumea, Honiara, Tarawa, Guam.

Details from Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva.

Hawaii - Samoas - Tonga

Warner Pacific Line operates uni tized/palletized and reefer cargo ser vice every 30 days Honolulu/Pago Pago-Apia-Nuku’alofa. Line Islands and Suva by inducement.

Details from Hawaii-Pacific Maritime Inc., Honolulu, Hi 96801. Tel. (808) 521-9806 Freight Dept. Tlx (RCA): 723-8330 ITT 743-0040 Cables ‘Oral’.

New Caledonia - Fiji - West'

Coast North America

PAD Line operates an approx. C weekly ro-ro service from Noumea an Suva to Honolulu and West Coast USE and Canadian ports.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines SA, BE 1602, Noumea (27-51 -91), Tlx NMO4i W. R. Carpenter, 100 Thomson St Suva (31-11-22), Tlx FJ2199; Trans Austral Shipping, Box R 232 PC, Roy?

Exchange, NSW (27-2441), T AA21204.

Png - Uk/Continent

Bank Line operates regular carg service from Kieta. Rabaul, Kimb« Madang and Lae to Cardiff, Hamburg Rotterdam and Antwerp.

Details from Bank Line (A'asia) Pt Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041 Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd, ports.

Png - Us

Bank Line operates regular carg service from Kieta, Rabaul, Kimb« Madang and Lae direct to New Orleans calls at other US and Gulf and Ea: Coast ports on inducement.

Details from Bank Line (A’asia) Pt Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041 Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd, PNG ports.

Solomons - Usa -

Uk/Continent

Bank Line operates regular carg service from Honiara to New Orleans Cardiff, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Am werp.

Details from Bank Line (A'asia) Pt Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041 Trading Co, Honiara (389).

NZ - COOK IS - NIUE -

Tahiti

Shipping Corporation of NZ Ltd open ates cargo services based on pallet and similar units from Auckland to Niue Cook Islands and Tahiti.

Details from the Shipping Corp of Nl Ltd, PO Box 3420, Aucklanr

[797-210), Waterfront Commission, PO 3ox 61, Rarotonga; Lighterage and Stevedoring Co, Aitutaki; Niue Govt Offices, Niue Island Compagnie Mari ime Polynesienne, B’P’ 368, Papeete, Fahiti.

Nz - Fiji

Reef operates a regular 18-day ser ies from Auckland to Suva and Lau oka.

Details from Reef Shipping Agencies, •O Box 3382, Auckland, NZ 77-1221-3).

Pacific Line with one ship operates xtnightly roro cargo service New tealand, Lautoka, Suva.

Details: Sofrana Unilines, 18 D s >ms Street, Auckland (773-279) O lox 3614, Telex: NZ2313.

IZ • FIJI - NORTH AMERICA (V ',) Blue Star Line Ltd Pacific Coast c n liner services. Only direct servic„ to nd from New Zealand. Blue Star Bssels call at Suva and Honolulu on Z-US-West Coast voyages.

Details from Blueport ACT (NZ) Ltd, O Box 192, Wellington (739-029) , urns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, GPO Box 355, uva, Fiji (311-777).

Nz - Fiji - Png

Pacific Forum Line operates a con inerised unitised/palletised service sen/Reefer) from Lyttelton and uckland to Suva, Port Moresby, Lae id Kieta.

Details from Shipping Corporation of ew Zealand Ltd, Auckland, Lyttelton jrns Philp, Suva, Steamships Trading d in Port Moresby, Lae and Kieta. (As )m end March, Service will be fully mtainerised) NZ - FIJI - SAMOAS - TONGA Pacific Forum Line operates a con inerised service (Gen/Reefer) from Helton, Napier. Auckland to Lautoka, iva, Pago Pago, Apia and jku'alofa.

Details from Shipping Corp of New (aland Ltd, Napier, Lyttelton and ellington; Union Steamship Co, ickland, Lautoka, Suva, Apia, jku’alofa; Polynesia Shipping Ser ies, Pago. Funafuti cargo tran ipped at Suva.

Z-N. Caledonia-N. Hebrides

Png-Solomons

Sofrana Unilines with three ships op ites to Vila and Santo, to Honiara and pua New Guinea and to Norfolk and and Noumea.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, 18 istoms Street, Auckland (773-279), > Box 3614, Telex NZ2313.

Nz - Tahiti

Dompagnie Tahitienne Maritime SA h one ship operates monthly service w Zealand - Papeete.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, PO x 3614, 18 Customs St, Auckland r 3-279), Tlx NZ2313.

Nz - Tonga - Samoa

Pacific Navigation of Tonga operates our-weekly cargo service. Auckland Nukualofa - Pago Pago - Apia ickland.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd, •wntown House, Queen Street ckland (30-229). i/Varner Pacific Line services ckland - Nuku'alofa/Vavau/ ia fortnightly carrying general and ezer cargoes. Also Timaru iku’alofa/Vavau/Apia every 21 days rrying freezer cargo.

Details from Air Marine Services (NZ) I, PO Box 2505, Auckland )6-841), Telex NZ21555.

Europe - Tahiti -

New Caledonia

Dompagnie Generate Maritime oper is services from Europe and Mediter lean ports to Papeete and Noumea ng three Ro-Ro and two multi rpose vessels thus ensuring a bi •nthly sailing to and from.

Details Compagnie Generate Mari

e, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney 11-3700).

Hamburg-Sued operates monthly cargo services from Hamburg, Dunkirk and Le Havre to Papeete, Noumea, via Panama.

Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (290-2966), Columbus Mari time Services, 17 Albert Street, Auckland (77-3460).

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA -

Fiji - N. Caledonia

Nedlloyd offers regular cargo ser vices from Northern Europe and UK to Papeete, Apia, Fiji and New Caledonia.

Details Nedlloyd (Aust) Pty Ltd, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-3801).

Uk - N Continent - Fiji

The Bank Line operates a regular 28 day cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp and Rotterdam to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from The Bank Line (Aus tralasia) Pty Ltd, 1 York St, Sydney (27-2041); Burns Philp (South Sea) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.

Uk/N. Continent - Png -

Solomons

The Bank Line operates a regular 28 day cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp and Rotterdam to Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Kimbe, Rabaul, Kieta and Honiara and on inducement to Yandina.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041); Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd, PNG ports; Trading Co Honiara.

Uk/N. Continent - Tahiti -

N. Caledonia - N. Hebrides

The Bank Line operates a regular 28 day cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp and Rotterdam to Papeete and Noumea.

Details from The Bank Line (A'asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041); Ets A M Fare UTE, Papeete; Ets Ballande, Noumea.

US - FIJI - TAHITI - NZ -

Australia

The Bank and Savill Line Ltd, oper ates regular cargo services from US Gulf ports to Australia and NZ. Calls at Suva, Lautoka and Papeete on de mand.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-2041) or Howard Smith Industries Pty Ltd, 1 York Street, Sydney (27-5611).

Us - Hawaii - Micronesia

Philippines, Micronesia & Orient Navigation Co (PM&O Lines) operates regular container service on self sustained ship with ro-ro capabilities from Oakland, Portland and Honolulu to Majuro, Kosrae, Ponape, Truk. Saipan, Yap and Koror.

Details for Micronesia can be obtained from Larry Guerrero, PM&O Owners Rep. PO Box 803, Saipan, Ml

96950, Cable Commontime; Pm&O

Lines, 181 Fremont St, San Francisco, California 94105, Cable PMONAV.

Us - Hawaii - Nauru -

Micronesia

Nauru Pacific Line operates regular conventional/container and passenger service from San Francisco and Honolulu to Majuro, Ponape, Truk and Saipan. Cargo is accepted for Nauru and Kosrai with transhipment at Majuro and Ponape.

Details from Nauru Pacific Line, Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Mel bourne (653-5709); North American Maritime Agencies, PO Box 7302, San Francisco, California 9411 (981-0343).

Us • Noumea - Fiji

PAD Line operates an approx 3-weekly ro-ro service from West Coast USA and Canada to Noumea and Suva.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines SA, BP 1602, Noumea (27-51-91), Tlx NMO4B; W, R. Carpenter, 100 Thomson St, Suva

(31-11-22), Tlx FJ2199; Trans-Austral Shipping, Box R 232 PO, Royal Exchange, NSW (27-2441), Tlx AA21204.

Us - Tahiti - Samoa

Pacific Islands Transport operates a five weekly cargo service from North America west coast ports to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia.

Details from Polynesia Shipping Ser vices Inc, PO Box 1478 Pago Paqo (9-6799).

Polynesia Line operates container and general cargo service from US west coast ports to Papeete and Pago Pago.

Details from Polynesia Shipping Ser vices Inc., PO Box 1478, Pago Paqo (9-6799).

US - TAHITI - SAMOA - NZ - AUST Farrell Lines Inc, operate a fast reg ular lash/container cargo service from west coast ports Canada/USA to Papeete and Pago Pago thence to NZ and Australia.

Details Wilh Wilhelmson Agency, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Tlx AA20136, Cable FARSHIPS Sydney; Dalgety (NZ) . Ltd, Auckland and Wellington, Tlx NZ2445, Cable DALSHIP Auckland; Compagnie Mari time Polynesienne, Immeuble Franco Oceanienne, PO Box 368, Papeete, Tahiti. Tel 26393, Tlx 258. FP ANSB Taporo. Cable OCEAN Papeete: Kneubuhl Maritime Service, PO Box 39, Pago Pago, Telephone 633-5121; Tlx 782505.