[BITList] Keith Tantlinger - Telegraph - Containerisation

[David Harvey]

She was McIlwraith McEacharn's "Kooringa" just under 6,000 tons. Built by
the state dockyard at Newcastle (NSW) in 1964 and operated from Melbourne to
Fremantle.

McIwraiths, founded in Scotland but later Australianised, was always a
friendly company to BI and AUSN, indeed their office in Fremantle was in the
AUSN office (MacDonald Hamilton. later P&O House), opening off the right
hand side of the front veranda of the office.

When AUSN shut down it was said that the company had to cease operating for
three reasons.

1. Their own mistakes (the last one being the refurbishment of the
"Ormiston")
2.Government interference
3. Unions.

They further said the company could have survived if they only had to deal
with any two of the above problems, but the three combined to close the
company. However McIlwraith's offered To lend AUSN cash to help then build
bulkers (Always trade available in those days of iron ore and/or coal).
Inchcape declined and AUSN went under. Worth noting that Inchcape paid out
all the investors from his private money so no investor (including
McIlwraith's) lost money.

Dave

Dave

On 16 September 2011 07:46, John Davison <davison.g at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> **
> I all ways thought it was Sealand , Mclean who started containers , ie  45
> footers , on the NY Puerto Rico service ,but this was disputed when I
> attended a container seminar in Spore, 68 ,  hosted by a guy from Adelaide
> ,, who said the worlds first container ship , operated from either Melbourne
> to Fremantle or Adelaide , perhaps the name ofthe co was Adelaide Steam , if
> I am not wrong ?
>
> Dave Harvey maybe can shed some light on this ?
>
> john
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