ST HELENA Line will reintroduce UK calls to its schedule beginning later this year. The line currently operates solely out of Cape Town to St Helena and Ascension Island and will continue to do so, adding two north-south voyages a year to the UK in October/November 2005 and March 2006, according to Andrew Weir Shipping (AWS), operators of RMS St Helena on behalf of St Helena Line. “With the recent demise of the P & O passenger carriage on their cargo services as well as the withdrawal of Safmarine’s 'Big Whites' between the UK and the Cape, it became apparent that maintaining a link with the UK was viable and would be valued. It also allows us to return to Vigo and Tenerife, as well as retain links with the ports of Walvis Bay and Luderitz in Namibia,” AWS’s Captain Bill Langworthy told FTW. The detailed schedule can be accessed on the web site: www.rms-st-helena.com
