FAST FREIGHT SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 2

FAST FREIGHT SERVICE.

* * <i v w 12,000 MILES IN 14 DAYS. (FBOM, iOUB OWS - , x , January 13. , Arrangements '.have been' completed' between Imperial, A;irways, tie CunardSteamship Company, J and White Star' Linei for ihe institution,, of a'new combined high-speed air and ocean freight service, whifeh is at first~io extend from' New York via London to India. It. is also,hoped,,in the neat future, to arrange connexions with, the trans l Aijiesl<sp.n airmail ■ service, giving a 1 12,00G-mile» air-ocea,n-air service from San Francisco to India. By this new super-speed air and ocean routed a parcel will' be conveyed,, from San, Francisco to India in not more 1 tihan". 14 dayd-,, .While the time r of transit '■ from New • v Yprk to India will* "be only-11 days, & extension of; this *,aii> ocean freight service will-be inaugurated . early next, year /When the Imperial .Airways England-South Africa .'route is instituted., This will open .up, not, only an service to sou£n but will show a'great saving in'the time' of "transit of urgent. parcels ffom- the entire, American continent, 1 ni)rth fetid, south,,to the'rapicfly developing British possessions along the.oast cast of '%• *