Swedish line
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ANEW shipping line will serve the South Pacific and the West Coast of North America.
The Swedish Pacific Line will provide one trip every seven weeks or so, serving Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Noumea, Lae and various West Coast ports between Los Angeles and Vancouver.
The company plans to charter a vessel for the service, and to start operations by March.
A multi-purpose vessel will be used, so that it can handle both brcakbulk and heavy lift cargo. Swedish Pacific expects to move consumer goods in containers to the South Pacific and bring back nickel and coffee.
One news account said that the line would carry cocoa from the islands; perhaps it meant copra and other
coconut-based products.
Swedish Pacific is owned by a firm specialising in roll-on, roll-off ships and ferries in the European trade, Gotland Invest Corp. of Vancouver; Gotland, in turn, is a creation of the Swedish firm, Rederiakriebolaget Gotland, whose
headquarters are in Gotland, an island in the Baltic Sea.
Hanse Shipping Agency of San Fran cisco is the managing agent for the new line. □