PORT OF LONDON

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 32

PORT OF LONDON

Big Improvements The Port of London Authority Announced in May, 3936, that the docks and warehouses bordering on the River Thames were to be improved and ex, tended at a cost of £12,000.000. This progressive policy has been amply justified by the rapidly increasing traffic, and the latest returns show that last year the volume of shipping broke all previous records. According to the annual report recently issued by the Port of London Authority, the total net register tonnage of vessels using the Port of London during the calendar year. 1936, was over 62 million, which is an increase of two and a half million on 1935 and three and a half million on 1934. In order to avoid dislocation of traffic, the work of improvement has been carefully planned, and will be carried out by sections. The expansion of Millwall Docks, and the erection there of new timber storage sheds has been taken in hand Recently; reconstruction is also in progress nt the Victoria Docks and at the West India Docks. The latte.' are the oldest docks built for handling cargo on the River Thames, but when the work has boon completed they will be the most modern and the best equipped of their type in the world.