New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-23
Pacific Ports
Competing for
Greater Trade
s..,,le Seeks to Eliminate
handling Charges Upon
Exports and Imports to
Attract More Business
wv Liners Active Soon
,dmiral Line to Have Two
More 535.Footers in Its
Service During Summer

-. vigorous competition between
,..;se ports to secure a greater share
4. Pacific shipping trade is illus
~,.d BY the action of the Seattle
49, Commission in filing with the
..,l;e Service Commission Of the State
washington a new tariff eliminating
...,fsre and handling charges of 25
~. on export and 80 cents on import
's.,n.nts. This tariff is stated also to
.,..,b handling charges of IS cents
j. xsy on import and export ship
-.,t, this item being absorbed by the
.,,ssd and steamship lines.
=, other words" says the Seattle
a.nbsr Of Commerce, Cargo dis
',.bsd through Seattle on a through
IN Of lading may be sent with
II . cent Of terminal charge against
4. ,hIuper. Oriental shipments billed
...i,y to Seattle will be handled here
..,.r tho new tariff at saving of 90
,.ss per ton
lADsy Service to Shanghai
III. recent sailing from Seattle of
4, 5s5-foot Shipping Board liner
g,,.tshee, operated by the Admiral
n. IA stated to have inaugurated a
Unit. that will put freight from
s.,s. in Shanghai in ten days. which
/, suicker than freight transportation
s..yeeu New York and Seattle.
n il announced that the State De-
,,tment has no objection to having
/, Wenatchee make Vladivostok
.,eu.r port of call, providing that this
I utidactory to the Shipping Board
Nd the operators of the vessel. Rus
,,n.Americans of Seattle have mott
ID the Port Commission that they
rsuM guarantee passengers and freight
i, ths steamship. The vessel, how
mi, was not routed to the Siberian
ssh
rbs second 5S5-foot combination
irejeht and passenger steamship to be
,oated to the Admiral Line by the
Shipping Board for transPacific trade
viii Be the Keystone State, which will
b delivered to the company at New
Yark Nay 81 and be dispatched via
a. Panama Canal for Seattle June 4,
ardvinq there June 25. The Key
,:ope State will start from Seattle for
Ii. Orient July 8.
Otieials Of the Pacific Steamship
Company expect the third liner, the
Bay State, to reach Seattle about
month or six weeks after the Keystone
State.
The General Steamship Company an
,eunces that the Shipping Board has
ds.ded to install refrigerator space
On the West Camargo, one of the
frsighters plying between Pacific Coast
mrss and Australia. If the West Ca
asseo proves successful the company
intends to install refrigerator space in
.arss; other steamers for the same
tisde.
Charles E. Ware jr., president of the
North Atlantic and Western Steamship
Company, before leaving Seattle for
Boston recently, announced that COM
nsncing with the sailing of the steam
'hip Yalza of that feet the vessels
ipssted by his company would make
New York a regular port o. call in the
aseroastal service. Heretofore ves-
isls Of the Nawco Line have only inter-
nittsntly called at New York, the prin-
si9sl ports served being Boston, Port
lad, Me-; Philadelphia and Savannah.
SEATTLE and Puget Sound have con-
tibuted rs per cent of the eastbound
trgoes for the North Atlantic and
Western Steamship Company, said Mr..
Wlrs.