at the same time.
The same argument applies to loading
cargo. Again, if freight were transhipped at Khampos, further handling and transport would still be necessary: Canton is ten miles away, and the costs of transhipping
at Whampoa into lighters or junks, and transport to Canton, would be little less than the cost of transhipping at Hongkong, and transport thence.
On the other hand, like so many other enterprises undertaken in Chine, the success or feilure of the project will not depend wholly on technical and commercial factors, and the scheme cannot be judged entirely from this point of view. The Kwangtung authorities are evidently in earnest about the construction of a port at "hampoe, and it is possible that, if after completion it is found to be little used, steps will be taken to force shippers to use it even although the result is to increase freight charges, the weight of which will fall on consumers in Kwangtung.