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under construction, and 6,199 further kilometers projected. The total length of inland water ways now being used for water transportation, according to Maritime Customs last annual report totals 321 miles, and extends to the north, south-east and south-west. Three air routes were reported
in operation, to Shanghai, Nanning and Nanai.
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These systems have been given careful study with special reference to their potential effect on the develop- ment of Whampoa business. Three projects have developed from such study. One is for a 750,000 picul grain elevator with incidental rice hulling mill, fumigating plant,
weighing and handling facilities for caring for grain which may arrive or leave by water, rail or highway.
Another is a large storage and handling plant for the use of the Salt Gabelle. A third project is a large transfer wharf for the military authorities, where direct interchange can be effected between water carriers and those on the
rails and the highways. The railroad authorities have had extensive areas set aside for their eventual use as easterly
and westerly railroad storage and switching yards, for open-air storage of bulky materials, and for direct transfer between boat and railroad car of bulk commodities. Other
industrial possibilities are a ship building plant with dry
docks and machine shops, a steel plant, a locomotive works,
and several smaller industries.
AIR PORT_PLANNED
Designs have been started for an air port planned for both land and hydro planes, with ample runways and water take off areas, and with excellent highway and railroad connections, and located only about ten miles from the business centre of Whampoa. Very few such favourable
locations are to be found elsewhere in the world.
The harbour navigation has been planned in
the form of a great loop so that vessels will not have to
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