SPEED AT SHIPSIDE
CONTINENTAL EFFICIENCY IN HANDLING CONTRAST IN AUSTRALIA Reed. 10 a.m. MELBOURNE, Today. Captain Bander Laan, master of the Holland-Australia steamer Aldebaran, which has arrived from Rotterdam, discussed the very modern methods in operation at Rotterdam for loading and unloading ships. He said that for moving coal they had huge iron grips, electrically driven and capable of lifting 15 tons in each grip. Eleven thousand tons of coal were discharged from his ship in 24 hours before coming to Australia. On another occasion 11,000 tons of bulk wheat were discharged in 20 hours. Grain was discharged by floating elevators, which sucked it out of the holds into lighters. His ship on this trip brought 4,500 tons of British coal to Adelaide. There the unloading process provided a sharp contrast to that in use in the Continental port, the same work occupying six days in A.ustralia.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 7
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147SPEED AT SHIPSIDE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 7
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