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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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