The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-12-11
OCEANFRHGHISTO 7
BE RAISED UNDER
SHIP BOARD rules
Sugar Planters Advised Charge
To San Francisco To Be f.
4 More Than Doubled
OTHER COMMODITIES May
BE INCREASED IN RATIO
Rise Meets Forecast That Ship
ping Costs Would Mount 81
Fully Hundred Percent lsli

Up go freight rates. Those who had
hoped to see ocean transportation costs
reduced by government control under
the shipping board find those hopes
dashed to the earth and shattered. 1t
Y revision upward and not downward
that has come, II is what has been iek-
pected, however, by those who have
studied the situation and forecasts OF
the action have been heard for several
weeks past. asEe ta lHl. 3
Hawaiian sugar freight rates to theg
Pacific Coast are. more. than doubled,
and to Atlantic ports by way Of the
canal they are increased more than
sixty.three percent. 81
Planters First Advised
i, Gable adviees received by the ,Hawa2
iian Sugar Planters Association yes
tefday from the representative of the
company at Washington said: m
shipping board fixes rates for next
senson 70 San Francisco at "a and to
Eastern seaboard points at els.
The old rate to San Francisco was 81
. ton, 30 the new rate makes an in
crease Of 1873 percent. The present rate
to Atlantic points by way OF the canal
is 1880, 80 the new rate of $15 Is an
increase of sixty-three percent.
Other Rates Unknown
No adyices have as yet been received
as to freight rates on other eommod-
tiles than sugar, and there Is no reason
to surmise that II viii be same in dol
lars and cents as on sugar. Those rates
haze ranged mp to "a a ton, and they
may be increased on a percentage basis
and not by specific increase Of "a, as
IN the case Of sugar destined for San
Francisco, II the same percentage were
used IL would make goods that now pay
~ hereafter pay $S.33. Sugar is a com
modify much wanted by the govern
ment and at may have been given
preferential rate E..Eta
Most Sugar BY Rail 4.
{, While a $l5 freight rate Is specified
for shipments by water to The Atlantic
seaboard il is expected that little Ha-
waiian sugar will reach its destination
through the canal, for after February
the greater part will proceed from San
Francisco TO New York by rail. For
this rate will be, tits expected, 5000,
made up Of "a ocean freight, $I2 pres
ent railroad freight, and probably an
added $l.s0, for Ii is expected the dc.
mands Of the railroads for leave to
raise rates fifteen percent win be
granted
In, addition to.these rates II must be
considered that there is three percent
tax on all bills Of ladings. This will
make the freight and tax TO San Fran
cisco 1921, TO New York bY water
$lS45 and to New York by. ocean and
maa@I " . VI
Government Loses Money
IL has been current talk among ship.
pers in Honolulu for weeks past that
there would probably be raises in the
freight rates, and in support Of the as
sertion II was said, and authority for
the statement was quoted, that the gov
eminent was losing money on every trip
of the Matson liners under the old
freight rates, as the payment which il
was making to the Matson Company
for the services Of the vessels com
mandeered was greatly In excess Of the
amount which II was possible to secure
under present rates with full cargoes.
The expectation, following the figures
that were quoted, was that the increase
on sugar freights would be at least one
hundred percent.
Had not the shipping board raised
the rates to Atlantic seaboard points IL
had been expected that the American.
Hawaiian line would insist on an in
creese for new contract, This had
been expected even before the United
States became involved In the war.
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