TRADE IN GRAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1939, Page 6

TRADE IN GRAIN

BIG SHIPMENTS TO LONDON. “The Port of London Authorty Monthly” for July contains two pages of illustrations and some notes on the discharging and storing of grain in the Port. It is mentioned that 2,760,000 tons of grain, seed and flour, were brought into London by ships last year. “Grain ships are accommodated either alongside the Central Granary, Millwall Docks, the privately-owned flour mills in the Royal Victoria and Millwall Docks or at general quays or buoy berths at these and other of the Authority’s docks. For the purpose of a rapid discharge the Authority maintain a fleet of floating pneumatic elevators with a total discharging capacity t)f 2,500 tons. The working capacity of the Thomas Wiles, the most modern elevator in the fleet, varies from 110 to 150 tons of heavy grain per hour, according to its description and condition.

“The elevators go alongside the ship and the intake pipes are lowered into the vessel’s hold and suck the grain into the elevator. Here it is weighed automatically and discharged into barges in bulk or in sack lots. Grain in bulk for landing'is usually discharged into the Authority’s special selftrimming grain barges, each capable of-holding 200 tons, and towed to the Central Granary, Millwall Docks, where it is stored and eventually de-' liv'ered to rail, road or water transport. Other consignments go to the dockside mills and are distributed by steamer or craft to mills, breweries or factories on Tharpeside and to the outports.”