PORT OF WELLINGTON

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1927, Page 14

PORT OF WELLINGTON

SHIPPING FOE JUNE

Though the tonnage of vessels arriving at Wellington was greater last month than it was in June of last year, the tonnage of departing shipping was less by over 33 1-3 per cent., the figures being 80,258 tons and 123,641 tons " respectively. .General cargo imports were also less, and there was a very large decrease in the amount of timber imported. In June, 1926, the figures were 3,017,219 compared with 1,639,SSI last month, a decrease of nearly onehalf. So far as the exports were concerned, however, there was an increase of 06,000 superficial feet, the amount on June, 1926, being 107,401 feet. Shipping and cargo statistics for last month, with the figures for June, 1926, given in parentheses, are as follow:— SHIPPING.

Total net registered tonnage of trading vessels arrlv*nf (t°ns\ ;••■-; 291,323 (272,225) Total net registered tonnage of oversea vessels departing (tons) .- 50.25S (123,641) CABGO. General Cargo Imports— From British and Foreign rr? n T tSCol^, S)and-fnteV- 2S'°"S3 (31'7°3) Gene^r^^Ship- 22 '763 i(24'"9) Q««if S apohs-- 10-°ls (9'°73) ?o%fJT a(n°d nS)ln,Vr:. .. *M 9l™ 19) colonial Ports (tons) . 17,013 (10,491) Imports (super, feet) .. 1,639,551 (3,01T 219) Coaf— °rtS <3Uper ' feet)' " 1^1,558 (lOT^Ol) Imports over wharves paying wharfage (tons) 16,462 (r 498) Transhipped overside ' Govr m eni"coVl-VandVd. 18 '328 (IW°6) exempt from wharfage Oils Kulk- •■■•••"• -3790 (2-8U) Imports (tons) 3 312 (19 718) Exports (tons) 10 19§ (0205 Transhipped overside \?.*voj (tons) ,'..... 751 tA Rim Wool and hemp shlpnients— ' ' Transhipped (bales)- ... 2,763 (2,255) Shipped from shore and »•<■.«>>>> rail (bales) g,787 (6,918) Butter, cheese, and frozen i".»-">i meat shipmentsl— Butter, ex store and rail and transhipped (tons) 752: (504) Cheese, ex store and rail and transhipped (tons) 5.44S (2,625) Frozen meat, ex store and rail and transhlpi- : ped (tons) 4 031 (2.887) Grand total for month (a 11.... cargo brought to tonnage * *"•"•••• basis (tons) I3»,70l (150,154)