OVERSEAS TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1921, Page 4

OVERSEAS TRADE.

NEW RECORD AT THE- PORT. NINE BIG BOATS EXPECTED. The expansion of the overseas trade at the port of New Plymouth is illustrated by the fact that already fourteen overseas vessels have visited the port since the beginning of the present year, and that nine other oversea ships are now on the list of expected arrivals. A» compared with any previous year this shows a great increase, and the facilities for handling ships and cargo are strained to their utmost capacity.

The nine liners that are scheduled arrive in the near future are as follow: —Wahnate (6969 tons gross, 420 ft long) to load frozen meat; Port Victor (7280 tons, 470 feet, twin screw) to load frozen meat; Suffolk (8838 tons, 460 feet, < twin screw) to load frozen meat; West Wind (5814 tons, 440 ft) benzine from U.S.A.: Peshawur (7634 tons, 480 ft, twin screw) to load frozen meat; Waiotapu (5856 tons, 450 ft) with cargo from San Francisco and Vancouver; Dorset (7569 tons, 460 feet), with cargo from West /?oast of England ports; Tregarthen (4263 tons, 370 feet), with fertilisers from New Orleans (U.S.A.); and the West Hixton, which is now loading at San Francisco for New Plymouth. One of these, the Dorset, will be the first vessel of the Federal Line to regularly include New Plymotith in the monthly service between the West Coast of England and New Zealand ports. The Dorset is to load at the English ports in June.