Year
1968
Description
On 14 March, the Swedish ship ‘Talarah’ departed after lifting unitised wool (in units of six bales). This was the first time that unitised cargo was handled at Albany.
Variously, bales were loaded thereafter in units, containers and loose.
The trade continued until 1980. Over 660,000 bales of wool (188,745 tonnes) were exported, the largest annual number was in 1968/69 (100,512 bales).
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