HUGO STINNES LINIEN
Regular Monthly Freight and Passenger Service between Japan, China, Hongkong, Manila and Straits and Hamburg and other North Continental Ports.
OUTWARD from Hamburg via Ports of Call
Xtras
Emil Kirdorf +geboor
Albort Vöglor vour Logien
Tonnage, skw
9,000 tons
19,300 tons
9,000 tons 9,000 tona
14th June
Arrces)
Beginning of July
HOMEWARD for Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg
Start
Adolf von Bayer
Emil Kirdorf
*Spheer
Albort Vogler
*Carl Logien...
'I nee, d.w."
Departure
9,000 LOUN
6th June
+9,000 ton
12,200 tons
9,000, tons
9,000 tons
calling at Manila.
Middle of July Begining of August
•These steamers are tied with all comfert for the convenience of about 50 first class Paseongers.
† Cargo boat.
AGENTS
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.
26, Des Voeux Road Central.
Phone Contral No. 478.
KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPY.
(ROVAL PACKET NAVIGATION CO, O BATAVIA) THE STRAMSHIP
VAN
OVERSTRATEN *'
will be despatched to
SINGAPORE & BELAWAN-DELI· Direct
24th May, 1923.
1st Cinas Fare to Singapore :-$100.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MAY 198, 1935.
This vessel offers excellent cabin accommodation for salsan pamangati
Single and double cabins.
Wireless Telegraphy,
For Freight and passage apply to:-:
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LYN,
Telephone Central No. 1574
INSURE WITH THE
OCEAN
ACCIDENT'L GUARANTELE CORPORATION LIMITED DE
·MINCORPORATEDI
ACCIDENT:&ILLNESS MOTOR CARS MOTOR CYCLES FIDELITY GUARANTEES BAGGAGE. BURGLARY EMPLOYEES INSURANCE
SHANGHAI OFFICE--
64, Paxing Road,
AGENTS for Hongkong
and South China,
!DODWELL & CO. LTD TELEPH, C., 1030.
CHAMB
Agents
JA VLEASANT PHYSICI
CHAMBERLAIN MEDICINE CO. DES MORALS, YOONA 15. 11. A
CORONA
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2, QUEEN'S BLD. Price Reduced to
$110.00.
SHIPPING AND THE EMPIRE.
IMPORTANCE OF GOOD DOCKS AND HARBOURS FOR EFFICIENT TRADE.
development a comparatively simple matter: on the other they may necessitate a keen fight with nature. Naturally deep ap proaches and a small range of tile mak matters easy; whereas if the approach is shoul and encumbered with banks, and the range
of the tide great, not only have special arrangements such as wet docks, to be
constant to overcome these
work and watch, cups, but
preserva
is necessary "to vastable conditions. [RY COMMADEZ H. KUNDLE, LN.J
The majority of the ports in this country fall under the Lord Inchcape, in an article in Brassey's latter category; whilst the Dominion and Naval and Shipping Annual, 1023, Indian, ports are of both kinds, Calcutta, by means of the
"Eicient shipowning ankes for elicient with its difficult with ita fine naturally shipbuilding, and efficient shipbuilding Hooghly, and Sydney, with
makes for commercially successful shipown- It is impossible, within the scope of these articles to deal with the question of ship building, important as it is in connection with shipping. Shipbuilding being one of this country's principal industries and our moreover, in which we excel, the Section at the coming British Empire Exhibition deal
with communications, embraces, under the heating of Marine Transport, types of
ing
Charterly Holy As an example. The
To take
range of the tile at Springs is at least, neuf the current reaches anximum rate of about four koots. There is also a bar at the riser's mouth which requires constant dred ging in order to maintain sufficient depth for the use of the largest ships. The over coming of these obstacles, conversion of the River Merses into one of the finest har hours of the world, and the extension of nforti an
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
BAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
"CHEONGSHING"...Saturday,
TIENTSIN SHANGHAI via SWATOW BANGKOK HOIHOW SHANGRAI SWATOW BANGKOK A SWATOW TSINGTAU ▾ SWATOW
SHANGHAI KOBE vis MOJI SANDAKAN HATHONG va Forsow SHANGHAI SWATOW... MANILA SHANGHAI
via SWATOW
STRAITS & CALCUTTA ... KOBE via MOJI
19th May, Noon.
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*TUNGSHING
"CHUNSANG
Sunday,
20th May10a.m. 10th May, 1012.
"KWONGSANG”
Monday,
21st May, 10a.m.
"HOPSANG
...Monday,
21st May, Noon.
22nd May, Noon.
Stud May, Noos.
FOOSHING*
· FOOKNANG"
"EINSANG
⚫MINGSANG"
LUKSANG" LOONUSANG
#ESANG"
"HOSANG"
LAISANOTM
MLAISANG
Tuesday, Today, Thursday, 24th May, 2 pm. Friday,
riday
...Sunday,
95th May, 10am.
25th May, Noon.
25th May. 3 p.m.
27th May, Noon.
...Wednesday, 30th May, 3pm. ...Thursday, 31st May, 7 am ...Friday;
13th June, 3 p.m.
STRAITS & CALCUTTA CALCUTTA LINE - This Line affords regular sailinge to Calcutta, Penang se
Singapore; returning from Calcutta steamers proseed via Straits and Boughing to Jayan, occasionally calling at Shanghai. All women have excellent panedger accommodation, Bited with Wireless and carry fully-qualled Surgeon.
Art
Chips, their machinery and equipment. | navigable water to rected by expert | SHARDHA) LIDE - Slllogu approximately every thies daye porween Canton and together with construction of harbours. example of what sciencc
With this classification in view, it is both engineers can accomplish. permissible and correct to add the corollary to
are essential to and inland
the following
But, as the great Exhibition at Wembley, Serial does not stand alone in Liverpool
Jachcapo's dictum will docks and harbours the
Delays at docks, whother caused by
of achievement. In this country,
ingaed
Frangbal, renetimes calling at 'Swatów. Through tickets can te obtained and through Bul of Lading are Nezihers and Tangue Ferta via Bhaaghal
LINK – A weekly service in maintained with Manila by yousels with good
and distribution in the Dominions, and in India, British MANILA
engineers have played their part in develop tion owing to inadequate means of h the inain suurees of our prosperity efficient
ing, in face of tremendous obstacles, one of HAIFRONG LINK: pprchy weekly for paneer and large
and improve
ove BORNEO cargoes, fack of storage space, or by any harbour and dorks. other causes, mean increased working co-ts ment is, however, still possible. When trule for shipping. Unduly high charges have ravives the shipping will be ready; as it con
the types be said that tinues to flourish so will
of ships So the same effre. however efficiently shipping may be equip improve. Improvement in ships alone would Harbours and ped and managed, the full efficiency of mean but half the battle. marine transport is unattainable unless the Docks are the great shipping termini and o desiderata obtains in regard to harbors junctions. Consequently, their efficiency is and clocks.
esential to commercially successful shipown-
and to prosperous trade.
same
may
Perhaps one of the most striking ad
vances that has been made in marine transport thuring past the twenty-five years is in the facilities afforded for rapid loading and discharge of carga Had it not been for the war, the advances would have been more striking. still. But signs are not wanting that the great port Authorities such as the Port of London Authority, the Mersey Docks and "Harbour.
Brant
the Clyde Navigation Trustees, the Great Western Railway South Wales Group, together with similar undertakings in the Dominions, not. and ably at Sydney, Melbourne, Durban Montreal are alive to the requirements of the future. A trade revival, therefore, sach as the British Empire Exhibition assures, will bonett them and a host of subsidiary un- dertakings, as it will also help shipping generally.
11
MODERN REQUIREMENJA
In the days of the Merchant Adventurers, their tiny craft, Laden with merchandise, merely sailed into a river, a creek or n har bour as the case might be, and either dischargesi their cargo into their own bouts a rough wharf for that or else lay alongside a purpose. The draught of the ship was spull and their cargoes generally consisted of easily handled packages. To-day not only are there huge lovinthang with dranght approaching in bulk, others in of gends
packages or les, whilet appropriate, som such unwieldy things as huge girler fur bridges, railway and traction e also have to be lifted in or out of ships. It Bay come about, therefore, that ports tgin large extent specialize in the handling of certain classes of ships and particular kinds of cargoes.
40 feet, but there are innumerable varieties
sized
Both hydrographical and physical features determine the class of ship and nature of cargo normally batlled in particular harbours or ducks, although practically,all deal with general cargo. tis case of the large trans Atlantic livery, for instante, the primary consideration is the rapid landing of passed-
Facilities for gers without disconfort. dry-decking and overtuol contribute another serum of these huge vessels, If, therefore, certain hachours exist at which at all states of the tide, steam Can, straight
alongside is lauling stage, such har bours will attract these classes of vessels. and Liverpool, with the latter's
Southamptonding stage, are eases in
Famous
whilst practically all the great in the Duminions and in India meet this requirment.
la the matter of cargoes we find the perts of South Wales specially equipped for the rapid loading of coal. Some 40,000,000 tons being dealt with annually. Montreal is noted for its facilities for handling grain, one elevator having a capacity of 4,000,000 bushels, and can and several ships simul- taneously at the rate of 10,000 bushels an hour per belt, besides laing able to unload grain carrying Lake steamers at the rate of 30,000 bushels au pour.
UNITED KINGDOM PORTA
As regards the United Kingdom, the principal parts are London, Liverpool, Man chester, Bristol, Southampton, Hall, New castle, Cardiff, Grimsby, Glasgow, Leith and Dundee, other ports being limited, owing to hydrographical fantures, to dealing with the
sicaller ocean tonnage.
transport
it is of interest
*
..
Smaller ports are occupied with the coast- al and home trade (ie, North Sea and. Const of Spain) and act as secondary centres of distribution to the large ports, receiving the goods by consting vessels. For some time. Past, however, the consting trade has been very badly hit by the rate war waged by the railways.
The safeguards included in the recent Railway Act may in time result in a betterment of this state of affaire meanwhile a valuable
of th
in ita curtailed sadly is
of Problems
this charactor, tr note, Bre
Wem Hall at. bloy next year when, also, the whole question of traffic-betterment will come under survey at the Power Conference organbed by the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association.
London and Liverpool may be described sa the great supply ports for the united Kingdom, Between them they handle some
the grain and four,
75 per cout. of ment, and-50 per cent. of the sugar which arrives in the country. Liverpool also, as might be expected, deals with a
The ex very large proportion of cotton. tent to which our sea lorno trade has fallen off since the war
from be War tay
months
of previous to the war the total net tonnage vessels which arrived and departed with cargo for and from these two ports was approximately 62,000,000 it had fallen in 1921 to about 33,009,000.
to be discussed d in the British Empire Exhibitioni Congress
WONG-SIU-WOON Immediate Delivery, 40 per cent of
BOOTS, SHOES & SLIPPERS Fox LADIES, GENTS, & CHILDREN
Bar Desans, Preoms MonzzatH,
PHONE 1474, 2}, POTTINGER ST.
Suppressed
ALEX ROSS & CO. the fact that whereas in the
(CHINA), LTD.,
Bank of China Bälldlog
Tel. C. 2487.
Harbour and Dock engineering and construction, in order to cope with modern shipping requirements, requires skill and ingenuity of the highest order. On the one hand; hydrographical features may render
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SAPIOL STEEL
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PILLS
TIESTEIN BANGKOK
En BCCI out, sailings from both ports every Friday. calling at Hohow when inducement afterw LINE:- Fortnightly callings to and from Bandskap by two 15,000 so
MDC72 BISFANGTM and ..., **WAUNANG" both steamers baving excellent passenger sccon medalios. Cargo,taken of through Bill of Lading for Kudat Jraselton. Labuan, Tawar and Kahad Dat LIBIA regular service la rin, from March to November between
Hongkong and Tienen, calling at Weibarest and Cheloo. LINE:—A weekly service is provided Letween Hoogkeng and Bangkok, sta Ewatow. by Eve steamer fsted with up-to-date passengu
■.socommodation.
CALCUTTA LINE
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or about 5.5. "HOSANG” will be despatched on Wednesday, 30th May at 3 p.m., for BINGAPORE, PENANG.
& CALCUTTA.
Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, MADRAS, PORT SWETTENHAM and DUTCH EAST INDIES.
For Freight or Passage apply town
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
THEPHORE: CENTRAL NO, 15
GLEN
AND
GENERAL MANAGER.
SHIRE
JOT ŠIRVIN »] BizAxIERA,
U.K.-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE
HOMEWARDS. Verzal Leaves B'kong. Discharges 25th May, *** GLENARIFFE”
Genos, London, Rotterdam and Hamburg. 1st June, GLENAMOY
OUTWARDS.
Versal.
Due Hongkong
4th June.
18th June
2nd July.
Lomion, Rotterdam and Hamburg. "GLENAPPTM"
211b Janaj
+ GLENTARA" "GLENIFFER "CARNARVONSHIRE
London, Reiterdam and Hamburg.
Movements are subjen to change theat notice.
For freight or further particular pleass apply tom
Teleprope:
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. The Glen Line, Ltd., AGENTS.
Central No. 215 anb-er. 13 and Central 2498
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "MANIFESTO," HONGKONG :
CODER USED: A1, ARC, Fifth Edition; Engineering: First and Second Edition Western Union and Walking, Benson's, Marconi.
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Dook Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and
Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians
OIL TANK STEAMER "PALUDINA"
427′0′′ x 59′1′′ x 91'0 x 8,400 tons.dw. x 3,100 HP.
Buit by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD. st.KOWLOON-DOCKS to the order
of THE ANGLO SAXON PETROLEUM CO., LTD., being one of four similar vessels built in these, WORKI to the sens order,
Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager;
R. MDYER, B. Sc., M.IN.A., KOWLOON DOCK, HONGKONG.