Shipping review

Title

Shipping review

Creator

Cavender, H. M.

Language

English

Source

The American Chamber of Commerce Journal Volume XVII (Issue No.4) April 1937

Year

1937

Rights

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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April, 1937 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 43 SHIPPING REVIEW By H. M. CAVENDER General Agent, The Robert Dollar Co. From statistics compiled by the Associated Steamship Lines, during the month of February, 1937, there were exported from the Philippines the following:— February brought the* welcome news that the long drawn out strike on the Pacific (’oast had been called oil' and the laid up Fleets would soon be released. The total export movement figure's 199,149 revenue' tons, 26,000 tons le*ss than for the* same' month in 1936. The- shortage* of tonnage* for base com modities was in eviehmee during the entire* month, particularly affecting coconut prealucts, lumber anel ores. The* sugar movement amounteel to 116,530 tons—all went to the* Atlantic se*a-board. There* was no refinee) sugar moved. Four chartered vessels cleared carrying 36,500 tons, two of these vessels flew the* Filipino flag carrying 13,000 and 8,000 tons respectivelv. See far for the season 1936-1937 the total movement is 299,379 tons as against 229,482 tons for 1935 1936. The* present seasem showing a gain of 70,000 tons to elate. Thee movement of coconut products is par ticularly hard hit by the* tonnage situation. De*siccate*el coconut shipments amounteel to 4,450 measurement tons, a gain over .January Were Carried in With American BotMis.cellaneous Of Which toms With To Tone tSailings Tons Sailings Chime anel Japan.......................... 44,642 44 17 1 l’aeifie: Coast -Local I)e*live*rv................. ................. 2,957 7 Pacific (’oast —Overlanel...................... 605 — — Pacific Coast Inte*r-Ce>astal. . None* -— — Atlantic anel Gulf........... ,........... 138,244 31 38,910 5 Europe*an ports............................................. ................. 9,598 13 — — All e>the*r ports.............................................. ................. 3,103 18 — — A Gj<axi> Total of 199,149 tons with a total of 85 sailings (average* 2,343 tons per vessel) of which 38,927 tons were carrieel in American bottoms with 5 sailings (average' 7,785 tons per vessel). of 1800 tons. The movement of oil was very satisfactory, the only buyer, the* United States, took 14,198 long tons. Xe> copra moveal te> any market—a record that we hope* never to record again. Europe took 3,550 tons of copra cake and the United States 781 tons, a total of 4,331 tons. There* were* offerings of both copra anel cake meal for United States delivery but no space, could be* found. There was too much better paying cargo obtainable. Lumber anel logs amounting to over 7 million board feet were shipped. Japan took 4,621,838 feet, China 859,845 feet, Europe* 700,104 feet, South Africa 597,159 feet, Australia 73,900 feet, the United States 287,632 feet. The total, except to Japan, was sawn lumber. Hemp was another disappointment—91,778 bales being shipped as against 124,839 in January and 119,913 bales in February a year ago. The* Uniteel States took 23,785 bales—Japan only 27,187 bales—Europe* 34,258—the* balance* was widely elistributed. The movement of ore*s was sadly upset by lack of tonnage. Japan took only 27,256 tons of iron and could not find tonnage for an addi tional 33,000 tons. She also took a lot of 1507 tons of chromite* or manganese. Molasses was epiet—125 tons in containers went to (-hina—there* was no bulk movement. Quite* a lew minor products show an improve ment : cigars 528 tons, embroieieries 98 tons, rattan furniture* 378 tons, kapok 37 tons, rice 77 terns, rope* f>07 tons, tobacco 807 terns anel vegetable* oil larel and margarine 675 tons arc* more* or le*ss normal movements. There were only 64 terns of gums, 94 terns junk metals and 17 tons e>f rubber moved. Cutch shippers forwarded 350 tons—a trifle* less than normal. PRESIDENT LINERS SAILINGS TO SEATTLE & VICTORIA “The Express Route” via Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama SS PRES. McKINLEY...................... May 5 SS PRES. JACKSON..........................June 2 SS PRES. GRANT...............................May 19 SS PRES. JEFFERSON......................June 16 TO SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK & BOSTON “The Sunshine Route” via Hongkong, Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Panama Canal & Havana *SS PRES. HOOVER.......................... April 28 *SS PRES. COOLIDGE......................... May 31 SS PRES. LINCOLN........................ May 15 SS PRES. WILSON.............................. June 12 ’To Los Angeles only. TO NEW YORK & BOSTON via Straits, India, Egypt and Mediterranean ports SS PRES. POLK................................. April 28 SS PRES. VAN BUREN....................May 26 SS PRES. PIERCE........................... May 12 SS PRES. GARFIELD.......................June 9 For further particulars, apply to AMERICAN MAIL LINE DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES Port Area MANILA Tel. 22-44-1 IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL

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