PORT OF MONTREAL
YEAR'S ACTIVITIES new record probable [from our own correspondent] MONTREAL, Dec. 6 Activities of the Port of Montreal this year promise to establish a new high record. Navigation out of the port officially closes on December 1 in preparation for the freeze-up of tho St. Lawrence River, and already tho personnel of the various liners an* bidding their farewells as they depart on their last transatlantic voyage of the season from this port. in the winter months, the Canadian ports of Halifax and Saint John on the Atlantic coast are the Canadian terminals for the cross-Atlantic lines, and those operating to the British West Indies, Australia. New Zealand and other points. Navigation having opened this year on April 18, the number of vessels entering and clearing from this port up to November 1 was 10,021 of ]5,138,383 net tons. This compares with 87C4 vessels during the whole of last year with a tonnage of 14,.'359,345. Cargo tonnage handled amounted to 14,356.882 tons, as compared with 14,222,363 tons last year, and the number of passengers landed and embarked totalled 158,219.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23233, 30 December 1938, Page 5
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