ENGLISH PORT DUES
Rates in London Compared PAST REDUCTIONS CITED (Rec. August 5, 7.30 p.m.) London, August 5. The Commercial Manager of the Port of London has made a statement to the Australian Press Association, replying to the Traders’ Committee report on July 29 comparing the port dues in England with the low rates on the Continent. He said: “I am not speaking for the whole of the United Kingdom because the rates vary, but as far as London is concerned there lias been a substantial reduction in the past eight years, including 7} per cent, on dues and shipments in February, 1925, a further 2i per cent, reduction in 1927, and still another in 1930. “Then the ship-rent rate was further reduced In September, 1930. There also have been reductions in the bulk handling of grain.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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