Following the breakdown of negotiations with the Union Government over the discontinuance of the shipping subsidy to Italian lines, the Lloyd Trestino Company is to increase its freight services round the African coasts.
An immediate start is planned on the construction of a series of 15,0009- ton motor vessels with passenger and freight accommodation, and a speed of 18 knots, to be put on the Capetown route in 1941.
The passenger liners "Guilio Cesare" and "Duilio," which are to be taken off the Capetown route now that the subsidy is no longer to be paid, are red to other services. will be chartered by the Italia Line—which is said to have had enquiries from Spain regarding an enlargement of the express service to Latin America—for its Genoa- Rio de Janeiro-Buenos Ayres service.
The "Guilio Cesare" is to undertake experimental trips from Genoa to Colombo, Singapore and Shanghai, as the Lloyd Trestino is planning an increased service to the Far East, especially to the British Dominions and Colonies—Reuter.
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