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DAVID NIVEN
STUART ERWIN
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BRITISH SHIPPING IN ORIENT
NEEDS HELP
March 30, 1939.
speed of their schedule, the rates charged and sometimes in the service forthcoming.
NEW SHIPS SUGGESTED On devolution of management, It "Japanese shipping is and Far-reaching proposals to help British shipping in stated,
managed in and from Japan the Orient to meet the growing threat of foreign competicompeting British shipping is man- tion, particularly by Japan, are made in a report of the aged directly or indirectly from the distont British. Isles; and it would Imperial Shipping Committee. The inquiry was under-appear necessary for United King taken at the request of the Government, and the Com-dom shipowners to establish a greater devolution than is at present the case." mittee began its survey two years ago.
Among the suggestions as to the form Government action might take are: Subsidies, reservation of carrying trades and the apportionment of carryings.
that
Its
the
"If the faels presented in this re- port lead the Governments to conclusion that an effort should be made to support British shipping Hines in the Orient,” it says, "wo
there British Commonwealth along also proposed It is
ships, better co- eastern front but also in the divided believe that consideration should be
given to the practicability of finan should be new
and shipping;cial assistance to the shipping com- operation of rival British shipping control
of traple
'concerns, more devolution of man- traffic in the East and shipping injpanies for the modernisation of their]
agement, more cargo consigned by the West. British merchants in British ships: and more even division between British owners.
fects nsa part of the solution of
Commenting on the lack of co-their dimeuitles.
ALHAMBRA
ATHANI
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW MICROBE HUNTERS WRESTING LIFE'S SECRETS FROM THE UNKNOWN 1
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JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON:
of traffic ordination in British commerce, the and foreign ship- Committee states that in a large view **ut this might prove unavailing of national interests, Import and ex-untess steps could simultaneously bo port merchants and exchange bank-taken, with the co-operation of the The "importance of trade-in-the-ers are partners with shipowners in merchant and banking. Interests con- Orient is indicated by the fact, that, a common venture. In the Unitedcerned, to ensure that fair and In 1930, the gross earnings of the Kingdom, the conditions have been reasonable share of the carrying mercantlle
marine of the United such that no attempt has been made trade between the various parts of Kingdom from carrying within the to give formal expression to this in-the Empire and Japan in allotted to Orient and between the Orient and terdependence and the three in-the mercantile marine of the Empire.
on its countries outside were approximate terests have flourished, ench
"If the shipping of the British ly £33,000,000, or about a quarter own vocational basis, as ellents to Commonwealth le to hold its own in of the total gross receipts from car one another rather than partners. competition with the Japanese it may riage of cargo and passengers
The merchants have routed their be necessary to develop some new over the world.
exparts by the slips of uny flag: the form of organisation appointed by "A GALAXY OF 10 NEW DISNEY SHORTS IN ONE PROGRAM I" bankers have discounted impartially the Governments concerned and bills of exchange supported by bills specially charged to watch
SUBSIDISED LINES
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Eastern
The
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In the trades with the Orient, both through Suez and round the Cape,
The Committee's inquiry showed
of the Committee British shipping maintains its long lead with between two-fifths and that the chief trades in the Orient was Sir Ifalford J. Mackinder and pud-half of the tonnage of shipping in which the position of British ship-other members signing the report Frederick Leith-Russ and of the
passengers in requires to be strengthened as are: Sir
the liner (Chief Exonomie Adviser to the Gov- is mainly shared between half rides between Australin and
and between India and Japan.
builder), Sir Kenneth Lec (Manu- dozen European countries,
the promotion
Discussing the need for new ships, facturer), Dr. D. T. Lewis of Concerning
(mer- with Louts flayward - Tom Brown Richard Carlson trade by the provision of shipping the Committee observes that it ce-chant), Mr. Robertson F. Gibb (ship-! notes the maina true that some of the foreign owner); Mr. T. Harrison Hughes facilities, the Committee increased competition of subsidised liners outclass the British liners in (shipowner) and Lt.-Col. Sir Francis
the C. Shelmerdine (elvil aviation). German and Italian lines in the Far the accommodation provided, Eastern and especially the China irade. Ry luxurious accommodation: and superior speeds they attract much of the better-paying cargo and pas- senger traffic.
carried, The,remainder of the trade matter of urgency ure Japan ernment), Mr. W. L. Hichens (shup-|
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Reviewing the factors affecting competition, the report declares that Japanese shipping and most of the
competitors other
principal British liner shipping in the Orient receive subsidies, whether for operat- ing or building or both, on a fairly substantial scale and the German the and Italian, and purifcularly Japanese. subsidies have enabled their mercantile marines to be mo- dernised with fASL and emelent versel. The German and Hollan Bnes are State controlled. The ten- deney is for subsidies to grow.
Apart from subsidies, the cumnu- lative effect of currency depreciation and of the different standard of Ilving; makes it possible for Japanese vessels to be operated at a cost which In 1930 was perhaps of the order of 10 to 15 per cent. below the cost of operating comparable Brilish vessels. HOW JAPANESE COMPETE
The major part of Japanese ocean- going shipping and also of Japanese overseas trade is under the financlu} cuntrol of a few great houses which have interests in banking, merchant- Ing and manufacturing, and in ship- building yards and other arms and Industries ancillary to shipping. As a result it is possible to bring power- ful Brunetal and commercial support to the aid of the Japanese ship- owners in competition with the foreigners.
-It-is-this-which gives to her-mer-į chants the power of routing cargo. bought in foreign markets for import; into Japan, by Japanese ships. It is this also, in its financial aspect, which places such strength behind the Japanese shipping companies that competitors have rarely ventured to challenge a rate wor In defence either of freight rates or apportion ment of sailings.
In contrast to such concentration of strength, there is on the British vide an absence of concentration, evident not merely in the number of the Governments which rule the
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