IMPERIAL TRANSPORT
ORIENT LINE DEVELOPMENT
AIR, MAIL A COMPLEMENT TO SHIPS.
(IJNITED riIESS ASSOCIATION,— COPIRIOHT.)
UVSTIUUAJJ-NEW ZBALAND. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 18th December. At a meeting of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, Sir Kenneth Anderson, pressing, said the volume of outward cargo had shown an improvement in the last 18 months, but- the rates on the lower level and the total number of dispatches of all lines engaged in the Australia trade remained far in excess of-its requirements. Though the, mail steamers continued to run with a fairly full cargo the intermediate steamers fared badly. Compared with 1922, the passenger traffic had been fairly satisfactory for first-class, but second-class showed a noticeable falling off. He regarded the proposed air mail service between Britain and Egypt, not as the competitor of, but as the proper complement to the steamship, providing exceptional facilities for fhat proportion of mail and passengers requiring express transit. - A
The company financially was in a strong position, and the character of the new ships now building was an earnest of its intention not to stand still. They had the resources necessary to meet the requirements of trade, and every intention oj doing so to tho^full. •
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Evening Post, Volume 148, Issue 148, 20 December 1923, Page 7
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197IMPERIAL TRANSPORT Evening Post, Volume 148, Issue 148, 20 December 1923, Page 7
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