LONDON DOCKS AND THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2605, 29 October 1915, Page 5

LONDON DOCKS AND THE WAR

One of the effccts of the war in London has been an enormous congestion of Australian wool, consequent on the fact that London is the only European port at present open for that commodity. In view of the great demand for increased storage space at tho London docks, the Port of London Authority has decided immediately to put in hand considerable further accommodation. Additional sheds of an area of 48,600 square feet aro to be provided at Millwall Dock, wliore another 108.600 square feofc of shedding was recently completed. At the Royal Victoria Dock it has been arranged to re-crect a shed with an area of 49,000 square feet which formerly occupied the site of the new cold storage sorting shed at the Royal Albert Dock.

In order to deal' with the abnormal conditions created b.v the war, the Port Authority had previously undertaken an expansion of storage abcommodatio-n representing a total area of about 400,000 square feet. The further works now decided upon will increase this figure to nearly 500,000 square feet. In other words, between ten and eleven " acres of additional shed accommodation will be at the servioe of the port.