WORLD SHIP CENTRE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 3

WORLD SHIP CENTRE

LIVERPOOL’S CLAIMS NO SERVICES SUSPENDED WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. Despite world economic conditions, Liverpool has maintained its position as a world shipping centre, there having been no total suspension of services to. any part of the world, according to a report from the vice-consul. Mr. Phil M. Hubbard. Liverpool, made public by the Commerce Department. During the. vear ended June 30. 1932, 5191 vessels of 15,058,000. gross tons arrived at Liverpool from foreign ports, and 1.471 vessels of '4,022.000 tons in the coastwise and cross-Channel trade arrived. As compared with the, previous year, the number of vessels entering .Liverpool declined fojy 368, totalling 762.5C0 tons, this being largely due to a falling off in, the coastwise traffic.

Approximately 15,2'C0,006 tons of cargo were handled at Liverpool during the yea)-. Passenger traffic declined sharply, however, the trade depression

and restricted immigration into some foreign countries being chiefly responsible'.

Pleasure cruises, inaugurated in an effort to minimise losses, have proved so. popular that most of the larger steamship companies in Liverpool have now adopted this method of keeping some of their surplus tonnage employed, it was stated. Losses in volume of traffic at this port caused by the curtailment of services of Liverpool vessels have been partially offset by other vessels calling at the port to discharge cargo.