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ADMIRAL LINË “ 535 " VESSELS.
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FAR-TRAVELLING TRAMPS. Some interesting details in regard to request has been received by the the destinations of the ships in ballast US. Shipping Board from the War De which pass through the Suez Canal arapartment for two ships of the Admiral. given in the latest issue of the Bulletin Oriental line, running out of Seattle to
the Far East, for use as transports. Depadaire.
These two ships are needed, the War The passing through the canal from north to south of a laden cargo vessa Department said, to take the place of the old transports Grant and T5imas, in the not belonging to the regular clientele,
Pacific transport service and the Depart- we are told, does not, -necessarily imply
ment feels that if the Board will allocate | that the same ship will eventually return
the two vessels it will meet a big saving. to Suez within the time that is normally
Undaunted by the rejection of his bid required for an exchange of cargoes for the five 538 type, or Fresident liners, During the first half of the current year.owned by the United States Government, no fewer than 37 of these tramps
and operated by the Admiral Oriental transited the canal from Port Said to line between Seattle and Victoria and Sues, with cargoes of esal, salt, or otherthe Far East, Mr. R. Stanley Dollar, producte, destined for various ports President of the Admiral Oriental Line, beyond the Red Sea. By the end of July has announced the company's intention 13 of these ships, after having dis charged their cargo and taken Aboard merchandise for Europe, sometimes at the same port, but more frequently at a more or less distant region, had again passed through the canal from south to north. Another, which passed through in January, carrying coal to Aden, did not appear at Suer again until Septem- ber, having come from Burma. The remaining 13 had not been seen in the canal again down to September 13th.
SHIPS IN BALLAST.
to prepare another bid for the ships as soon as new tenders are asked for, in accordance with the recommendation of Mr. Elmer E. Crowley, President of the United States Shipping Board
Mr. Crowley recommended to the Board that the Dollar bid be rejected, and also recommended that the operating agency be taken from the Dollar Steamship in
teresta.
It has been learned that the Dollar bid was a proposition primarily with a view to purchase the five liners on a deferred delivery basis, offering a first payment of 878,000 or 94 per cent. of the In the case of ships in ballast passing purchase price in cash, the $1,000 monthly from north to south, however, things are charter payment or each ship for the five- derent. Those vessels which pass year period mentioned being merely in- canal in ballast from the Mediterranetcidental to the purchase plan.
to the Red Sea, are, as a rule, already Mr. Crowley's contention in recom- engaged for a return operation within amending the rejection of Doling's bid of very short period; they nearly always $600,000 for each ship at the end of five return to Europe by way of Suez after year's operation was that it was inade- a delay which natuurally varies accord quite. He cited the payment by the ing to the distance of the region to which Munson steamship lines of $1,098,000 fer they had gone in search of freight.. This each of the Pan-American ships as gange. delay is about seven days for the of what might be considered a reason-
able bid for ships of the President class. small vusals, which proceed to ship mánaganese at Abou-Zenima (Red Sea), 30 days for the tankers, which bring petroleum from Abadan (Persian Gulf) 60 days for the chips returning with rice from Burma, and, finally, about 100 days for these which had gone to embark Australian wheet.
EAST AFRICAN TRADE,
There is, however, one class of bullast ship which does, not observe this rule of a prompt return.atd. Suez, namely, the cargo-vessels bound for the southern ports of East Africa. These numbercu 23 in 1923, representing a, total of 97,000 tans, and 1 in 1924, of 45,000 tons. Of these, 25 empty ships in 1923, five, which went to Seychelles and Madagascar, re turned to the canal in 60 days, bringing to Europe cargoes consisting principally of guano and meal; four were not seei again at Suez, while 16, which had been sent mostly to Durban, or to Mauritius, Beira and Kilindini, only returned to the canal a very long time after they had passed through in ballast from north to south. And the remarable, thing about them is that they came from any part of the gicbe east of Suez, with the exception of Africa....
For example, a cargo steamer pass ed through im ballast in January and returned to the canal in April with produce shipped. at Bombay, after an absence of 101 days. Another coming from north in January, also bound for Durban, re-entered the canal in May, coming from Siam-111 days. A third, passing through in May for Durban, r turned in September from the Philip pines, after an interval of 128 days.
A CURIOUS CASE.
There is another curious case of a British tramp which, after its north- south transit in ballast in September, 1013, procceded to Mauritius, and was not seen at Saez again until.March, 1925 19 months later when she was carrying a cargo of Australian wheat.
The most general explanation of this long interval between the two consecutive passages of the same ship, which had brst passed from north to south in ballast-bound for an African port, is to
be found. in the fact that she goes there to load merchandise (coal, maize, sugar, etc.), which she will take to home regions beyond the canal, after whichy but not always, she will embark at some point a new cargo for transport to Europa rid Suez. Hence the curious fact that certain South African products, which in themselves do not use the Suez ructe have nevertheless an indirect and by no means negligible in fluence on the traffic in ballast through the canal
GERMAN SHIPPING. "
In the recently Shipping Year-book.. tho President of the North German Lloyd (Dr. Heineken) states in an article reviewing the present statue of the world's merchant marines," that "for eign nations need not be alarmed at the dangerous growth of the German mer- chant marine."
The German merchant marine is being slowly but steadily reconstructed, but it . will take a long time before Germany will"rank gecond, as she did before the war. Today Germany' occupies the fifth place, and her total tonnage amounts to 2,300,000 tons against 5,400,000 in 1913. Total tonnage of the world amounts to day to approximately 64,000,000 tons, a against 49,000,000 in 1914 Therefore, German tonnage amounts to only 4 per cent of the world's total tonnage
A comparison of the nation's tonnage in proportion to the population places Germany at the twentieth position among the seafaring nations..
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He also referred to the fact that the President liners originally cost $5,400,000 each. and that 3900.000 had been spent on them in reconditioning and overhaul since the latter part of 1924...
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