PORT OF LONDON
YEAR'S RECORD TRAFFIC TREMENDOUS TONNAGE British Official Wireless. EUGBY, 4th January. The port of London has, during the past year, beaten all its previous re- j cords for shipping traffic. Figures just issued covering the eight months from April to November, 1929, show that in that period the total tonnage of shipping that arrived and left port, was nearly forty million tons. This was 5.G per cent, more than in the similar period of last year, which was itself a record. This year it is estimated that the not registered tonnage of shipping handled at the docks^of the Port of London will reach the record amount of 60,000,000 tons, as against that'of 55,000,000 tons last year. In the past thirty year 3 the value of imports and exports in and out of the port have jumped from £207,000,000 to over £700,000,000." The port's increase has been mainly in cargo, as distinct from passenger traffic, but the Port Authorities, by enlarging tho dock accommodation and the landing stago at Tilbury, are encouraging big passenger companies to make extensive use of London as a calling place for largo liners. The latent development in this direction is the announcement that tho Canadian Pacific has decided to place on the London schedule tho steamships Motrose and Metagama.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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216PORT OF LONDON Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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