Directory_and_Chronicle_1939

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SHANGHAI

million tons under the Chinese flag, 1.5 million tons under the Japanese flag, and 0.75 million tons under the Norwegian flag. The tonnage of vessels; entered from, and cleared for, inland places under Inland Waters Steam Navigation. Regulations decreased from 5,840,949 in 1936 to 4,185,427 in 1937. Their number also decreased from 29,190 to 18,498. These figures do not include 44,420 junks entered and cleared. From the above figures it can be seen how severely Shang- hai suffered in regard to shipping: of the total number of vessels and of tonnage for 1937 referred to, 80 per cent of entries and clearances took place during the first seven months of the year. As regards the dredging work of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, a total of over 24 million cubic yards (solid in place mea sure) was removed from the Whangpoo River and the Soochow Creek during the year. On the Yangtze Bar over 32 million cubic yards was removed by the drag suction-dredger winste. The great reduction in the dredging work of the Board's plant in 1937, both in the harbour and at the Yangtze Bar, as compared with the previous year was attributable to the enforced total suspension of work from the middle of August owing to the Sino-Japanese hostilities and the com- mandeering of the Board's vessels by the Japanese military authorities. The new Chiukong Wharf, built at a cost of $5,000,000, with its two sections each measuring 590 feet in length and all facilities for the expeditious. handling of cargo,, was opened on the 12th June, the first steamer to berth there, being the China Merchants' s.s. Kungping, followed by the 26,000-ton s.s. Empress of Japan and the Italian mail steamer s.s. Conte Rosso. This fine new wharf came well within the area of hostilities, and the immense possibilities of its future development must await more fortunate days,

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