LINERS AS HOTELS.
NOT PROFITABLE T,O RUN. By Telegraph.—l>res3 Aasn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 22, 9 p.m. London, Oct. 21. The Australian Press Association learns that owing to the heavy cost of building and running passenger steamers, and the fact that fares seem to have reached the maximum obtainable, though still unprofitable, ship-owners generally are considering the question of building smaller, slower, and less expensive steamers, giving more space to cargo, thus reducing the capital outlay, and minimising the risks attendant on the variability of the demands for passenger accommodation.
A proposal is mooted in the United States to convert; the ex-German liner. Bismarck into a floating hotel, moored alongside Manhattan whsA Kew Ycirk. It is suggested other great liners wfil be similarly used in British ports.—Aug.N.SJ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1920, Page 5
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