Shipping service
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suspended
Pacific Islands Transport Line has suspended its service between the Pacific Coast and the Pacific Islands of Tahiti, American Samoa and Western Samoa.
General Steamship Corporation, Ltd., agent for the line, and its owner, A/S Thor Dahl of Sandefjord, Norway, said that so far the line has been unable to find a suitable replacement for the chartered vessel ’’Sirius” which completed her last voyage for PITL on Febru ary 13, at Wilmington, Cali fornia.
The owners say they are continuing their search for a suitable substitute vessel to serve the trade.
This is the second recent withdrawal of a major ship from the island trade. Last year Burns Philp found themselves unable to find sufficient cargo to justify their very useful inter-island shipping service. They had received considerable verbal support from various gov ernments, but not enough actual cargo, despite the fact that such a service would clearly be of benefit to island economies.