SHIPPING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20063, 9 October 1939, Page 5

SHIPPING

PORT OF GISBORNE VESSELS DUE AT GISBORNE Margaret W., Auckland, October 12. Pakura, Lyttelton and Wellington, October 12. Kopara, Auckland, October 12. Wainui, southern ports, October 16. COASTAL TRADE The Pakura, from Lyttelton, is expected to complete loading at Wellington to-day for Napier, Waikokopu, Gisborne and the Coast. The ship is due here on Thursday. The Kopara loads at Portland today and at Auckland to-morrow for Coast bays, Gisborne and Napier. The vessel should discharge at Gisborne on Thursday. The Margaret W. loads at Auckland to-day and to-morrow for Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga Bay and Gisborne. She is to work this port on Thursday. The Wainui, which is loading for Gisborne and Napier, is expected to leave Dunedin to-day, Oamaru and Timaru to-morrow, and Lyttelton on Wednesday, thence Wellington. The ship arrives at Gisborne on October 16. The Puriri is expected to complete the discharge of her coal cargo at Tokomaru Bay this afternoon and sail for Greymouth. GERMANY'S AGEING FLEET Writing in the German press, Dr. W. Hoffman, president of the Ham-burg-American Line, draws attention to the fact that more than 70 per cent of the German merchant fleet is over 10 years of age. German shipping, continues Dr. Hoffmann, can only fulfil its task if the quality of the fleet keeps up to the standards set by competitors, but the advance made by foreign .flags, as compared with pre-war times, is becoming increasingly noticeable. Between 1931 and 1938 the total of new construction for German shipping companies was one million tons less than their requirements. During the past three years, moreover, German shipyards have concentrated on foreign orders to the disadvantage of German shipping companies. These owners now had so much ground to recover that they must insist on the shipyards giving them a fixed quota.