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KIRIBATI SHIPPING TO START A REGULAR SERVICE TO 4 ISLANDS
NUKUALOFA, May 14, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) --
Kiribati Shipping Services
Limited (KSSL) on Wednesday formally signed an agreement with
Nauru, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Wallis and Futuna to provide
regular feeder shipping services to these countries.
The four small island states (SIS) have been confronted with
irregular shipping services since 2006.
KSSL general manager Itibwinnang Aiaimoa said providing a
regular shipping service to the four island countries was a
profitable venture.
"We were providing services in the past but they were not
regular. This was due to a lack of commitment because no formal
agreement was in place to coerce the provision of services as
required," Mr Aiaimoa said.
The company, which has been in existence since 1979, has two
feeder ships and will provide services once a month that will
be dictated by the routes the cargoes demand and the volume of
the cargo to be carried across from one island state to
another.
Mr Aiaimoa said KSSL had been providing shipping services to
SIS since 2007.
"We have been providing shipping services through Fiji since
then, carrying cargo to Tuvalu, Nauru and to Kiribati. And we
continued this service even though they were irregular and
sometimes with very little cargo," he said.
The agreement will also mean much-needed income for KSSL.
"The company is government-owned but we do not enjoy
subsidies anymore. We have to earn our existence and sustain
our services," he said.
(Pacnews)
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