PORT OP MANCHESTER

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 92, 16 October 1922, Page 7

PORT OP MANCHESTER

A record in the handling of wool from ship to Warehouse was recently established at the Manchester Docks, states "Modern Transport." The s.s. Tasmania, from New Zealand, loaded with 20,223 bales of wool, berthed at the docks on. Saturday morning, 19th August, the wool being destined for storage with the Port of Manchester warehouses, in Trafford Park.. The steamer commenced to discharge the same morning,"* and, within one week, the whole of the 20,223 bales of wool ware housed in one of the warehouses at Trafford Park. The majority of the wool was discharged direct from the ship on to the railway wagons, which were then hauled in full train loads to the sidings alongside the.warehouses in Trafford Park- In oner day 4904 bales of wqol were cleared from the railway wagons into the warehouse. Simultaneously with the discharge of. the s.s. Tasmania, the s.s. West Gotomska, from • Australia, was discharging wool at the Manchester Docks, and 3441 bales from this steamer were also stored in another Port of Manchester warehouse in Trafford Park. On tlio same day as the 4904 bales from tlio Tasmania were housed in one warehouse, 544 bales of the West Gotomska wero also housed in another of the Port of Manchester warehouses in Trafford Park, making a total of 5448 bales of Wool housed in one day. "This is not only a now vecord for Manchester, but it is believed that a cargo of wool has never before been so expeditiously housed," remarks the journal. As indicative of the facilities given to shipowners at the Manchester Docks, attention ma.y be drawn to the fact that the's.B. Tasmania, which avrived on the Saturday, left the berth on the following Friday morning, having completed her discharge cm the Thursday.