North Atlantic Range (1962)
Document No.2.
IMPERIAL SHIPPING COMMITTEE.
Copy of letter sent by the Chairman to (a) the Halifax Harbour Commissioners (b) the Halifax Board of Trade and (c) the Saint John Board of Trade.
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28th July, 1932.
I duly placed your letter of the 7th June regarding the
suggested inclusion of Halifax (St.John) in the North
Atlantic range of chartering ports before the Imperial
Shipping Committee, and they have made further enquiries in the
matter.
It would appear that the question is no longer se
important as formerly. So far as the shipment of grain is
concerned, the space available in the liners appears to have
almost sufficed and chartering has been on so small a scale
during the first seven months of the current year that very
few ships indeed have been chartered for the purpose, either
from Canadian ports or from United States ports within the
range, and so far as my informatión goes, only in the case of
one of these vessels was an option given to load at alternative
ports within the range.
If you would be good enough to refer to the Report of
the Imperial Shipping Committee of June, 1929, on the subject
of the shipment of grain through Halifax and St.John, you will
find that in paragraphs 10 to 16 it is explained that the
term "North Atlantic range" is used in bargaining on the
market. In other words, it is used in verbal negotiations
and in the journalistic record of such negotiations. The
Baltimore Berth Grain Charter Party, which is the form commonly
used for the shipment of grain from North America, does not
incorporate the term "North Atlantic range" but leaves a blank
for the insertion of the port or ports of loading.
I am
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