Fiji Ports play role in Pacific cargo

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Williams and Gosling chief executive officer (CEO) Eddie Yuen has confirmed that under the company’s agency two calls were made on a monthly cargo inducement basis.

Mr Yuen said Williams and Gosling were shipping agents; they do not own any vessels servicing the Pacific.

“Williams and Gosling act as ship agents; we do not have vessels servicing the Pacific. However, under our agency we look after Matson Shipping,” Mr Yuen said.

He said Matson South Pacific Limited (MSPL) operated vessels that service the Pacific Islands on a fortnightly rotational basis.

“The ports the vessels call into include Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa, Apia, Rarotonga and Niue,” he said. The four MSPL container vessels that visit the ports of Lautoka and Suva are Liloa II, Island Chief, Capitaine Dampier and Capitaine Quiros.

General cargo carrying ships Liloa II and Island Chief for their Fiji to New Zealand trips usually call into Lautoka first before coming to Suva and then for Auckland. The trips now skip calling into Tauranga.

General cargo carrying ships and for their Fiji to New Zealand trips usually call into Lautoka first before coming to Suva and then for Auckland.

For their Fiji to United States of America (USA) and Honolulu schedule they skip Lautoka, departing from Suva for Apia, Long Beach, Oakland and Honolulu.

For their Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands and Niue schedule some trips skip Lautoka, they leave from Suva for Apia, Pago Pago, Rarotonga, Aitutaki (Cook Islands), Niue, Vavau and finally Nukualofa.

Capitaine Dampier does the Fiji to Vanuatu runs while Capitaine Quiros does the Fiji to Solomon Islands/Nauru runs.