After unloading the vessel continued on to Australia arriving there in January 1917. Solstad finished loading 78,685 sacks (approximately 6,497 tons) of wheat in Melbourne on 2 February and left the next day for Europe. The ship coaled at Fremantle on 14 February, Colombo on 6 March, touched off at Aden on 21 March 1917 before arriving at Port Said on 1 April around 09:10. After taking on 500 tons of coal the ship departed Port Said at approximately 17:30 and was directed by the British authorities to proceed to Livorno to discharge her cargo.
