CHEMULPO
浦物 Che-mul-po
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This port, called by the Japanese Jinsen, and by the Koreans Inchon, is situated on the west coast of Chosen (Korea), in the province of Kyongki, at the entrance of the Kan or Seoul River. Opened to foreign trade in 1883, Jinsen is now a flourishing and rapidly increasing centre of trade, with a population in August 1935 of 76,433 (Koreans 64,112, Japanese 12,321).
The annual trade of Jinsen in 1934 was valued at Yen 160,340,229.
There is a wet basin, with two lock gates at Entrance, which can now accom- modate 8 vessels of 4,600 tons, and vessels can enter at all states of the tide. All ocean going vessels lie outside Sho-Getsubito Island in the outer anchorage about three miles from the port.
It has been decided to construct a new basin a little to the south of and running parallel with the present basin at a cost of Yen 10,000,000 which will accommodate vessels up to 10,000 tons. Surrounding the present basin are large warehouses suffi- cient to handle the trade.
The inner harbour is gradually being dredged to a depth of 26 feet 1. w.s.
Steamers of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, Chosen Yusen Kaisha, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Amagasaki Kisen Kaisha, and Shimatani Kisen Kaisha, and some outside steamers ply regularly between Japan and Korean ports on the East and West coasts, and there are good services between Jinsen and Tsingtao, Weihaiwei, Chefoo, Chin- nampo, Antung, and Dairen with an occasional vessel to Shanghai via Fusan.
Every effort is being made by the Government-General of Chosen to make Jinsen the principal port in Chosen for the distribution of through freight and passengers to all parts of the country. A network of railways have been and are being extended to the N.W. and N.E. borders, with Seoul as the centre, and all the ports around the coast are being rapidly connected up with the trunk lines.
昌廣 Kwang chang
DIRECTORY
BENNETT & Co., Merchants— Cable Ad:
Bennett
Walter Geo. Bennett, signs the firm
H. Kimura
T. Yamaguchi
BRITISH CONSULATE
Consular Agent--W. Geo. Bennett
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(JAPANESE)
IMPERIAL CUSTOMS
Commissioner-M. Yoshioka Dock Master--vacant
Appraiser-K. Hara
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY OF THE
GOVERNMENT-GENERAL OF TYÛSEN
TOWNSEND & Co., General Merchants-
Teleph. 13; Cable Ad: Townsend
Wm. MacConnell, partner
A. C. Biddle, assistant
WOLTER & Co., CARL, Gomei Kaisha-- Teleph. 79; P.O. Box. 3; Cable Ad: Wolter
Hermann Henkel
Paul Schirbaum
H. Rieck