CHEMULPO
浦物链 Che-mul-po
This port, called by the Japanese Jinsen, and by the Chinese Jenchuan, is situated on the west coast of Chosen (Corea), in the metropolitan province of Kyongki, at the entrance of the Salée River, an embouchure of the Han or Seoul River. It was opened to foreign trade in 1883, when it was a poor fishing village, and is now a flourishing and rapidly increasing centre of trade, with a population of 51,273 (native 38,086; Japanese 11,227; Chinese and Foreign 1,960). A railway runs from Chemulpo to Fusan, meeting the line from Seoul at Yong-dong-po (Yei-do-ho).
Chemulpo enjoys a beautiful climate and is never shut up by ice. The port has two anchorages, the outer one accommodating ships of all sizes, and the inner one frequented by ships of about 1,000 tons, but a scheme of reconstruction is under way. An enormous rise and fall of the tide, which averages 30 feet, renders the inner anchorage difficult of access to larger slips, and is also a scrious hindrance to the navigation of the Seoul River. Only vessels not drawing over six feet may safely run between Cheniulpo and Mapo, a place on the river three miles south-west of the capital. A spacious wet dock has been constructed at a cost of Yen 5,700,000 to accommodate vessels up to 4,600 tons gross. A floating crane lifting 30 tons is
available inside the Dock and there are two fixed cranes on the sea wall which lift 3 and 10 tons at a radius of 24 feet.
The steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Osaka Shosen Kaisha call regularly and have the bulk of the trade and passenger communication with Japan, and, in the case of the former, with North China. The Chosen Yusen Kaisha maintains a regular service between the port and Dairen, touching at Tsingtao. There is also a regular weekly service maintained between Chemulpo and Weihaiwei, Chefoo, and Dairen with the steamers Kyodo Maru No. 26 and Lee Tung.
There are telegraphic communications with China (overland) and with Japan, and a powerful wireless has been established by the Government at Ryuzan suburb of Seoul.
Every effort is being made by the Government-General to make Chemulpo the principal port in Chosen for the distribution of through freight and passengers to all parts of the country. Railway lines have been and are being extended to the N.W. and N.E. borders, with Seoul as the centre, and all the ports around the coast are being connected up with the trunk lines.
Tourists to the famous Diamond Mountains are greatly on the increase, and the Cunard liners Laconia, Franconia and Carinthia with Round-the-world Tourists called at Chemulpo in 1926. Also the Hamburg-Amerika liner Resolute.
昌廣 Kwang-chang
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Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co.
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.
Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.
China Mutual S. N. Co., Ld.
China Navigation Co., Ld. Butterfield & Swire
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American Asiatic S.S. Co. Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Ben Line of Steamers
Prince Line Far East Service
Eastern and Australian S.S. Co., Ld. Bank Line of Steamers
Robert Dollar Co.
Andrew Weir & Co.
Lloyd's
Phoenix Assurance Co., Ld.
Norwich Union Fire Ins. Society, Ld.
Union Marine Insurance Co., Ld.
North China Insurance Co., Ld.
China Mutual Life Insurance Co., Ld. The Central Agency, Ld.
Cunard Steamship Co., Ld.
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