The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-13
HARD WORKING SHIPS


now doing the work of these before
the war, according to transportation
records kept by the Shipping Board
| This increase results from a marine
skip-stop system, which includes d.
rect routing, unification of cargoes,
full loading and reduction of time in
port
This work of the Shipping Board is
! the first in the history of American
shipping of centralized organization
wathching the work of ships, con-
strasting their perfofances and striv-
ing all the time to speed them up.
Vessels in the coastwise trade are
working with hitler to unequalled
speed. Two round trips a month be-
tween Norfork and Baltimore and
Boston was considered good service
in the past for vessels in the New
England coal carrying trade. Now the
pace is four trips. The British recent
" made the '"turn-around" in five and
half days.
Nitrate from Chill and manganese
| from Brazil, both in great demand be-
| cause of the war, are being brought
to the. United States in record time
Four voyages to Chilean ports in a
year was formerly regarded as good
service, but the Commodore Rollins
recently made the turn-around between
New York and Iqlique in A days,
which included stop at Norfolk for
cargo of coal to the Canal Zone
The Santa Luisa on her maiden voy-
age established a record of eighteen
days before New York and Val par
also.
In pre-war days the trip to Rio de
Janario and back took three to four
months, but now only IS days is the
time according to the Shipping Board
standards. The Saga recently made
round trip from New York to Dio in
IS days, Wool for soldiers uniforms
is being brought from Buenos Aires
and Montevideo, the round trip being
of 100 days average time.
Sailing vessels, before the war made
the round-trip to South America in
six months, but one schooner, built Off
the Slipping Board, was back in New
York from delivery of coal at Bue-
nos Aires in 1T days. The George
S. Smith, another sailing craft of the
South Aferican trade, made the round
trip between Norfolk and Para in IA
days.
Diversion of the fast ships from the
Cuban trade to transatlantic SER
vice has handicapped rapid operation
between New York and Cuban ports,
but the Shipping Board records show
the average, including time in ports,
to be about rs days.
The average turn-around in the Mex
lean oil trade has been reduced to
eleven days, and some tankers made
made the trip in week.
In the Pacific, the average turns
arounds are fast approaching the
fastest times of pre-war schedules.
The swiftest ships there, as elsewhere,
have been sent to the Atlantic for war
transportation to Europe, but the YES
sizes allocated to the trade with the
Orien and Australia have saved time
by fewer ports and by loading and I'M
loading more quickly than in the past
The Ventura made the trip to Hon
olulu Sydney, Page Page, and back to
and back to Honolulu and thence back
to San Francisco in 81 days, which feat
was duplicated by the Sonoma
The average round trip between
San Friscoe or Seattle and China, in
Guiding days in port. has been cut to
eighty one, and only sixty-eight days
are required for the round trip be-
tween the Pacific coast and Japan
New vessels are to be placed in the
trade and are expected to reduce the
time.
Round trips between San FRANCO and
the PHILIPPINES, including stops at Man
lila. Cavite, Hong Kong, Shanghi Kobe