PORT OF LONDON.
INCREASE IN SHIPPING. REDUCTION OF RATES. British Wireless. RUGBY. Jan. 1. In spite, of the world-wide trade depression, 800.000 net registered tons more shipping used the Port of London during the nine months ended September, 1930, than during the corresponding period of the previous year, which established a record.
r Lho Port of London Authority, which has just completed a programme of new works costing £5,000,000, which considerably improved the port's facilities, recently took 5 per cent, off the port rates on foreign imports and exports. It also reduced dock rates on shipping by Id per net registered ton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 9
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