ARGENTINE MEAT TRADE.
BIG SHIPPING'SCHEME.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ■']. y LONDON, Deeember'a.,! Chiefly owing. to the active policy adopteS b.» the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, th-! number "of steamers engaged in the Argentine .meat carrying trade will, , before* f Very leng, be considerably increased. The" Royal Mail, by joint agreement with Messrs: Fiir,----n ess. Withy and Co., have given out contracts for the building of aix large steamers for the frozen moat trade between the Argentine, London, and European.ports. /,; Some time ago the Jtoyal Mail arranged to build six passenger linera to run between Liverpool and.the Argentine. Al! twelve vessels will form part of one great scheme, and the- expenditure involved will be over one and a half millions. At present th* Royal Mail eervic-'ia fortrightly, but about a year, hence there uhould be a regular weekly service of, big meatcarriers between this country and the Argentine.' • .-..'» It is understood that Liverpool will be the home port for the passenger liners, and Loner en the home port for the . froien meat carriers. . ■ . ■ ''-..-..
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 13938, 11 January 1911, Page 11
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