THE COST “VIA PANAMA."

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 5 June 1914, Page 4

THE COST “VIA PANAMA."

“f doubt whether ! ■ i:i ’.i y owners have, .actually eabaiialed 1 in* e-o-U (hat any of their earner' would incur in yainy though the Panama Canal,” say-; a wtiter in Fa irpla.y. have, my-e!!'. done :ny iV'l to make some eat.-ula ’ ion in i]ji> re-pio-i, ainl I i!;e! tlie ion mi re wi ] e .me mil. .very liiih' in <'x;■ c.'', if any. of the Sue/, Canal tom;,aye. in tin’ earn 1 of sieaiiiem pro.-cediim from. mv. New Grimin' t-j oa)tau with ra.ino. very slight diiVeretice -’xi-ds l-.etw emi the coM. of 1 1 ■aiisporline - 'iieli cargo by the three alternative rmuem Via the Sue/ Canal, via the Cape of Good Hope, via Panama. The Panama rmiC i' ihe more eoonomieal. hut only fo tiie. e , .eat of a, few pence-per ton, Tad ihi.' eau -oon lie neutral} i.'im an excessive Canal tannaye In comparison to (he deadweight, carried. By this f mea.n that a, steamer carrying a cargo of dead veiyht on a low canal register would operate cheaper via (he Panama Cam nl. whereas a 'learner of the- same deadweight only with a large cu-nal register, oceaMonod hy reason of liaviny a. oo tuple to shelter deck nion.sum! in. might under certain eiremitj .■dances reject h.utii routes, and operate cheapen - via tlm Cape of Good Hope.”