BY BOAT TO SWITZERLAND
When tho annual Swiss Industrie* Fair opened at Basle ou April 2 the transport section had a new interest and significance for the whole of- Europe, for at Basle, 800 miles from the sea, Switzerland is forming tho nucleus of a mercantile marine.With the completion during tho past twelve months of a main section of tho important new harbor works on tho Rhine Basle has become the terminus of Rhine navigation. The city, one of tho richest and most productive in Switzerland, is now in direct communication with tho North Sea. -To extend what is exported to be-the considerable‘marine trade of the future several Swiss navigation companies are now established at Basle, and numerous firm* who reship. merchandise by way of tho canal and river systems to Central Europe and the Near East have opened offices in the city The most noticeable feature of Rhine shipping during the past fifteen or twenty years has been the steady penetration of traffic further and further up stream. Not long ago tho German town of Mannheim was the terminus of the river’s trade shipping. To-day it is Basle, 150 miles nearer the source.:
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Evening Star, Issue 19552, 10 May 1927, Page 3
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