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DEPRESSED STATE OF THE
SHIPPING INDUSTRY.
SEA CARRIAGE AT A LOSS."
{BY ARCHIBALD HEED.}
13TH, 1924
A survey of British shipping reveals some ground for confidener in the future. As the Chamber records in its report, British shipping, is still the most effic ent instrument of transport, whether judged by the volume or quality of its tonnage, We possess, it is true, little more temage than ten years ago and If proof were needed that the shipping that is not a matter than can be deplored, industry, though it is conducted under many flags, is really international it is since there is loss work for ships to do, There is no impression that an undue supplied by the world-wide depression proportion of the vessels under the Red which now prevails. It is not only that Ensige age old and therefore inefficient. the world is preuhging less than it did. That is to the fact. About half the ves and that therefore there are fewer cargues sels of the British mercantile marine ars less than ten years old. It is noteworthy to carry, but various naticus, by legisin- tion and administrative action, are later that of the 29,216 steam and muutor ver fering with the freedom of their parts. and thus restricting the freedom of the sels in the world when. Lloyd's Register> sens. The reaction of a purely comestic prepared its last return 2.801, or 0.6 per event on this international industry is cent.. were capable of maintaining a illustrate by the limitation of speed at sea of twelve knots or over: grants decided upon he the Laited and of these and this is a consolatory States. The prosperity of the North fat per cent. were under the Bri tish flag. According to the figures, given the last Atlantic trade depends in
by the Chamber of Shipping, we have not The Gier. nonlexis upon the emigrant.
so far held our own in the building of man shipping lines have encefied up- wards of a dozen sailings as a result of motor ships, which are the ships of the future, earning profits where steamets the new American law, the British shiny stain lusse That the proportion ping will certainly also be seriously affected. That is merely an example of the widespread influgners Bowing from a single piece of legislation dictated by national plies. Other examples, with less excuse, could be quoted to demon strate how the present depression in the sea carrying trade is heing made worse than it otherwise would be by attempts to ignore the physica! unity of the seas on British Which ships pass to and fro and the inter-American dependence of the neein trade of ali Senndinavian nations, it producers, merchants, and consumers are to obtain the most efficient and cheap transport. Mr. Charles Tenny- sun, the deputy director of the Federn tion of British Industries. has recently dealt with this subject in an illuminating address, indicating that it is not only the shipping industry that suffers from acts of flag discrimination. but pinetically every industry.
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TSINGTAU via_SWATOW
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SHANGRAI SHANGHAI via SWATOW MANILA
TIENTSIN
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Wednesday, 13th Aug. 10
Friday: 15th Aug. 10am.
Saturday,
Ang
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"SUISANG'
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17th Ang.. 7
LEESANG
Sunday,
17th Aug 7m30.
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Monday,
18th Aug. No,
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Tuesday,
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CALOUTTA LINE-This Line now affonde regalar sailing to Calcutta, Penang and Singapore; returning from Calentia steamers proceed via Straite
And Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai. All steamers have excellent paxianger accommodation, fitted with Wireless and carry a fully-qualified Surgeon.
SHANGHAI LINE→Sailings approximately avery three days between Canton and
of the British fleet of vessels with the new type of engine was low when these statistics were prepared is shown by the following percentages of motor shipsMANILA possessed by various countries, valenlated by number and gross tonnage:
Per Cent. By Number By Tonnage.
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21.4
$.9
114 38.3
26.1
10.9
35.7
27.3
The riciency of the managenients ashore; secondly, the physical conilition of the feets; thinly, the skill and re- source of the offers and men; and fourthly, the absence of any surplus of ships above normal requirements are all hopeful factors. The most hopeful sign is possibly the orders which have recently been given for motor ships. indienting that the evolution from voal to oil, with
ment.
NO SIGN OF PROFITS A If British shipowners were hot canormal its economic advantages in saving of ed optimists they might well abanden Costs, is now making more rapid pro- gress. The highest interest of all con- hope for the future on reading the ancerned with sea transport is to make the maal report of the Chamber of Shipping, industry attractive as a field of invest which has just been issued. This docu
You know as well as I do," Me, ment, which contains a full review of the FC. Atten recently served in address. situation, and is"accompanied by a mass of statistical information, is sad realink the National Maritime Board, that for everyone, since the Sartones of all of it is vital to your interest equally with us are linked up with the posperity of ours that capital should be attracted to the shipping of our and country. Re- the industry. If capital forsake us, then we are lost. No indestry van Hoarish calling the course of events down to last
which is uneconomic, and by some means spring, it is stated that, although pas senger ships have fared somewhat better shipping in Great Britain has to he than general cargo carriers, international restored to a prolit-carning basis.
ocean-borne trade as a whole has been transported not only without profit to the shipowner, but at a heavy loss," That matters have not improved since those words were written is suggested by A recent statement by Mr. F. C. Allen, the chairman of the National Maritime there have Board. He declared, that been, as always happens, fluctuations in freight rates, but these have resulted merely in a temporary abatement of losses in certain trades; of profits in the tene economic sense-that is to say, of surplus of earnings after providing for depreciation and interest on capital there is as yet no sign
nuss.
Yet the shipowners have just conceded to the officers and men. with the excep- tion of ordinary seames, increases of pay which, unless there is an unexpectedl um- provement in the carrying trade, must result in more ships being laid up and further seamen being condemned to idle. There is no mystery about this concession of an uneconomic wage to the men onboard ship. It is the sequel to. the disastrous settlement of" the dock trouble three months ago. Sesmen urged that if the dockers were entitled to more pay, so were they, and the initial mistake' having been committed, the further claim of the men who face discomforts and dan- gers to which the dockers are strangers could be resisted only "probably at the risk of a strike. This higher wage repre sents a further handicap on the British shipping industry it unprotected com petition with the feet under other Angs, with, generally perking much lower It has been wages and mining costs. said, for instance, that German ships are being operated to-day at about 50
per ent less cost than British ships. But nevertheless even the German shipping) companies, it is reported. will pay no divi- deads this year. The embarrassment of the shipping industry directs attention. once more to the inequality of wages now in the sheltered" and "us-
presaling →trudes. But it is in the
trades exposed to feree foreign rivalry that the greatest skill has to be displayed by the workers, and it is those industries which create the wealth on which the whole nation lives.
HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE
It has been admitted that the ship' owners, in conceding higher pay to the seamen," are offering hostages to fur- tune," at a time when, as the Chamber of Shipping records, there are about under all flagя 15,50.000 tons more than in 1914 and far fewer cargoes to be car ried. A great man of those vessels will probably Bever he seen at sen again. because only ships of the highest efici ency can live with Ireights at their pre- sent level, and then only if their owners have built up in past years reserves for tiding over bad times The capitalistic system, with its long views., is proving the salvation not only of British shipping, but of the nien associated directly or in-. directly with sea transport. If owners today had no resources except the low freights which are being earned. ships would be laid up not by the hundred, but by the thousand, and this Labour-Social- ist Government would have to make heavy inroads on the Exchequer in order to provide aubadiies for vessels to carry our food and raw materials. And yet there was a time, not an very long since, when there was a talk of nationalising shipping. We have had a very fortunate escape, as is astrated by the misfor tunes which have overtaken the State fleets of other countries which invaded this sphere of activity, where expert and knowledge, individual initiative, economical management are essential to success.
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