SHIPPING CONFERENCE.
; PROPOSED.JNTERNATIONAL TJNION. ; association—corritiniiT.) v ;>;■: ■'.-'<'■ !';;> •■, February ';9.;,; :■ -At: the. Baltio. and Whiter Sea.-.Corif eroiico' at.Cop'Bnhagen.'-fou'rtM rcprer sented'.;,:vTho- conference unanimously passed a f motion. .cf ; sympathy; ". with 'the'/Newcastle proposal for; international -union. !/•-:.; -.'. : : '■; \ A .cablegram - dated January ;27 stated; that the;northern shipowners Vat a meeting at Newcastle,- adopted,: the principle of, an-:.interna-tional 'union/scheme. Messages of support, were receivecl-from: all.parts of the. United Kingdom; and -abroad from persons and firms representing a capital of fifty million-sterling.. The scheme is : welcomed .with enthusiasm in - Japan, ,'j It was/previously-; cabled; that/North-east;:.Coast; 'shipowners': bad determined to regulate.: the supply of .tonnage to. the demand—because/of the: quantity of idle shipping—and had drafted a tentative scheme ;■ to, lay; up . all. -.tonnage : for certain ; periods - •'■ annually. . The ■,'.;■ cablegram added:;" The soheino has been well received at Cardiff,.Liverpool, and othbr.Splaces, : though" jt lias not oyoked much enthusiasm on the Clyde."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 429, 11 February 1909, Page 7
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141SHIPPING CONFERENCE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 429, 11 February 1909, Page 7
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