PORT OF LONDON

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1930, Page 5

PORT OF LONDON

RECORD YEAR FOR SHIPPING. ACCOMMODATION for passenger TRAFFIC. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, Jan. 4. The Port of London lias, during the past year, beaten all its previous records for shipping traffic. Figures have been just issued covering eight months from April to November, 1929. These show that in that period the total tonnage of shipping that arrived and left the port was nearly forty million tons. This was 5.(1 per cent more than in the similar period last year, which was itself a record. This year it Is estimated that the net registered tonnage of shipping handled at the docks of the Port of London will reach the record amount of sixty million tons, as against that of fifty-five millions last year. In the past thirty years, the value of imports and exports in and out of the port have jumped■ from £26 1, 000,000 to over £700,000,000. The port’s increase has been mainly in cargo, as distinct from passengei traffic, but the Port Authorities, by enlarging the dock accommodation and abiding stage at Tilbury, are encouraging the big passenger companies to make extensive use of London as a calling place for large liners. Ibo latest development in this direction is the announcement that the Canadian Pacific lias decided to place London on the schedule of te steamships Montrose and Metagama.