Report of the Imperial Shipping Committee on Rates of Freight in the New Zealand Trade (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Report of the Imperial Shipping Committee on Rates of Freight in the New Zealand Trade

As regards the rates on general cargo, these were designed to return £6 a ton measurement to the ship, and hence the rates per ton weight varied with the nature of the goods. Attention having been called to the fact that whereas the rate on oats was now £10 per ton weight as compared with the pre-war rate of from 253. To it was explained that the low pre-war rate was due to the general freight situation at the end of the season when freights was very scarce. The current rate was on the same basis of the others, viz., £6 per ton measurement.

The general increase in freights was attributed to the increased cost of running the ship, and a telegram from the London Tonnage Committee was put in in evidence which gave particulars of the increase-s in expenses as follows.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.