1939-03-30 — Page 12

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NEEDS HELP

March 30, 1939.

speed of their schedule, the rates charged and sometimes in the service forthcoming.

NEW SHIPS SUGGESTED On devolution of management", "it Js stated, "Japancae shipping is Far-reaching proposals to help British shipping in managed in and from Japan and the Orient to meet the growing threat of foreign competi- competing British shipping la man- tion, particularly by Japan, are made in a report of the aged directly or indirectly from the Imperial Shipping Committee. The inquiry was under-appear necessary for Unlied King dom shipowners to establish a greater taken at the request of the Government, and the Com-devolution then Is at present the mittee began its survey two years ago.

owners.

disinnt British Isles; and it would

CNBC."

Among the suggestions as to the form Government

"If the facts presented in this re- the action might take are: Subsidies, reservation of carrying port lead the Governments to

conclusion that an effort should be made to support British shipping trades and the apportionment of carryings.

lines in the Orient," it says, there British Commonwealth along itsbelieve that consideration should be It lo also proposed that

co-eastern front but also in the divided given to the practicability of finan abould be new ships, better

of traffic and shippingi zini "assistance to the shipping com operation of rival British shipping control concerns, more devolution of mantrame in the East and shipping in unles for the modernisation of their ficets as a part of the solution of ngement, more cargo consigned by the West.

ships Commenting on the lack of so their dimculties. British merchants. In British and more even division of trafile ordination In Bellish commerce, the

"But ils, might prove unavailing | between British and foreign ship- Committee sintes that in a large view

of national interests, Import and ex-unless stops could simultaneously be port merchants and exchange bank-taken, with the co-operation of the The Importance of trade in the ers are partners with shipowners in merchant and Banking Interests con

n fair and Orient is indicated by the fact, that, a common venture. In the Unitedcerned, to ensure, that in 1930, the gross cummings of the Kingdom, the conditions have been reasonable aliare of the carrying mercantlie murine of the Unlled such that no attempt has been made trade between the various parts of to Kingdom from carrying within the to give formal expression to this in the Empire and Japan is allotted

In the mercantile marine of the Empire. Orient and between the Orient and terdependence and the three

"If the shipping of the British countries outside were approximate- terests have fourished, cach ly £33,000,000, or about a quarter own vocational basis, as clients to Commonwealth is to hold its own in

competition with the Japanese of the total grass receipts from ear one another rather than partners. all and passengers ringe of cargo

The merchants have routed their be necessary to develop some new exports by the ships of any flag; the form of organisation appointed by. over the world,

bankers have discounted impartially the Governments concerned and

watch bills of exchange supported by bills specially charged to

over In the trades with the Orient, both of lading of any cargoes in foreign. British shipping in Middie and For

Eastern waters." through Suez and round the Cape, as well as United Kingdom, ports.

The Committee's inquiry showed British shipping maintains its long that the chief trades in the Orlent was Str Halford J. Mackinder and lead with between two-fifths and which the position of British ship other members signing the report one-half of the tonnnge of shipping ping requires to be strengthened as are: Sir Frederick Leith-foss and of the

cargo and passengers carried. The remainder of the trader of urgency are the liner (Chief Economic Adviser to the Gov- frades between Australia and Japan ernment), Mr. W. L. Hichens (ship- is mainly shared between hall

and between India and Japan.

builder), Sir Kenneth Lee (Manu- dozen European countries.

Discussing the need for new ships, facturer), Dr. D. T. Lewis (mer- the promotion of Concerning

the Committee observes that it re-chant), Mr. Robertson F. Gibb (ship- trade by the provision of shipping mains true that some of the foreign owner), Mr. T, Harrison Hughes facilities, the Committee notes the increased competition of subsidiseders outclass the British liners in (shipowner) and Lt. Col. Sir Francis

the C. Shelmerdite (civil aviation). German and Hallan Unes in the Far he accommodation provided, Eastern and especially the

SUBSIDISED LINES

д

China -

Irude, By luxurious accommodation and superior speeds they attract much of the better-paying cargo and pas- senger traffic.

Reviewing the factors affecting competition. The report declares that Japanese shipping and most of the other principal competitors of British liner shipping the Orienti receive subaldies, whether for operal- ing or building or both, on a fairly substantial scale and the German the and Italian, and purileularly Japanese, subsidies have enabled their mercantile marines to be mo- dernised with fast and emelent Vessel. The German and Italian Ines are State controlled. The ten- dency is for subsidies to grow,

Apart from subsidies, the cumu- lative effect of currency depreciation and of the different standard of living

for makes it possible

Japanese vessels to be operated at a cost which In 1936 was perhaps of the order of 10 to 15 per cent. below the cost of operating comparable British vessels. HOW JAPANESE COMPETE

The major part of Japanese ocean- going shipphig and also of Japanese overseas trade is under the financial control of a few great houses which have interests in banking, merchant- ing and manufacturing, and in ship- building yards and other Arms and Industries ancillary to shipping. As a result it is possible to bring power- ful Onancial and commercial support to the nid of the Japanese ship- owners

in

with "The competition foreigners

It is this which gives to her mer- chants the power of routing cargo. bought in foreign markets for import kato Japan, by Japanese ships. It is this also, in its financial aspect, which places such strength behind the Japanese shipping companies that competitors have rarely ventured to challenge

defence rate wor In elther of freight rates or apportion- ment of sallings.

In contrast to such concentration of strength, there is on the British side

concentration. an absence of evident not merely in the number of the Governments which rule the)

on its

It may

The Chairman of the Committee

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