SHIPPING FREIGHTS.
« — PROBABLE liAEGE INCREASE. LONDON, March 8. "Tho Times" says tho shipping companies are combining to increase outward freight rates by at least 50 per cent. Some owners assert that tneyare considering tho Inying-up of their ships, owing to the fabulous cost of bunker coal, which is quoted at £7 15s per ton in London, as compared with 15s to 18s per ton before tho war.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16780, 11 March 1920, Page 7
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