Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-20
NEW YORK Is AHEAD
IN CARGO MOVEMENT
Statistics Show Worlds i.arg-
est City Easily Oulslrips
Its Competitors.
CITIES ARE OMITTED
Pointed out rhRt Hampton Ronds
Ports Are Zoo Much Onc-Com-
modify trntcrs-NorfoIk's Position
Improves Notably.
lMy Associated pressl

WASiilNGToE. Sov Io-New York
with ?.l02.s6S tons incoming and .
i57.i33 tons outgoing led all Amer
i'an ports during the year ended
last Jun. 30. in Tn" movement OF
overseas cargocs. according to fix.
ures compiled by III" Shipping
koard's research bureau. ~ a wide
margin Sew York. also topped all
ports during the preceding fiscal
year In CarroeS entered and cleared.
statistics Of tho bureau do no, in
dicaic the tonnage actually loaded
Of DISCHARGED al the various por,s.
goes on board vessels which took
anal clcaran"c or made initial en-
trance a. that port
New Orleans second.
The bureau, in rating III" twelve
principal ports whose activities ar.
not dependent on the movements OF
on" commodity. listed them as fol-
lows:
Fiscal year 1922: careocs entered
New YORK New Orleans. Bostoa.
Philadelphia, Baltimore. Galveston
san Francisco. Norfolk. Los Angeles.
Portland. Me. Charleston. 5. c.. and
Jacksonville. Cargoes clearcd--New
York, New orleans. Galveston. PhiIa.
deiphia. Baltimore. San Francisco,
Portland, ore; Seattle. Los Angelica
Savannah. Boston and Portland. Me.
Fiscal year 1921: CargOes enforced
New York. New Orleans. PhIiadel-
phia, Baltimore. Boston. Galveston
San Francisco. Charleston. Savan-
nah. Seattle. Los Angeles and Port
land. Me.
Cargoes cica-ed-Ncw York. Bal
timore. New Orleans. Philadelphia
Galveston, san Francisco. Portland.
Orc: Boston. Los Angeles. Seattle.
Savannah and Mobile.
Total transactions In both inward
and outward movements Of carro.s
reflect more clearly tho Importance
Of ports In general commerce. the
bureau declared in ranking ports as
follows AZ to total transactions
Fiscal year l:22--%.w YORK. New
Orleans. Philadelphia, Galveston.
baltimore. Boston. san Francisco.
Portland, ore; Los Angeles. seattle.
savannah and Portland IL"
Fiscal year ly@l-N-w York. Sew
Orleans. Raitimorc. Philadelphia
Galveston. Hoston. SAN Francisco
Portland. ore. Charleston. Los An
gcl,s. Savannah and Seattle.
Omit Several Ports.
Several ports. omitted from tho
tabUlation because ono commodity
movement so predominatcs tina, in
many instances they outraniS ports
where a greater volume Of general
commerce is transacted wcr" listed
as 10 total transactions for the fiscal
year 1921 Norfolk. fourth; Newpor,
News. seventh; Port Arthur. Texas.
ciEhth. and Baton Rouge. La.
eleventh. and for tho fiscal year l"22:
PORT Arthur. third: NOrtolK, eighth:
Baton Rouge ninth, and Newport
News. thirteenth.
Total transactions AZ New York
during tho last fiscal year amounted
Ito ! PSI COZ long tons. compared with
20.a+o,777 long tons the preceding
fiscal year. The New Orleans total
was 7.i05.2OS tons for the year end
tn" year previous The reduction in
ether ports below the New orleans
totals was more gradual
Summarizing the principal ports
by districts. the bureau listed toia!
transactions FOR the two fiscal year,
as follows North Atlantic. 37.775.o57
In 1922. and 5i.S@3.i6i in 1921: south
Atlantic 2.0?s,3&0 in 1922, and 2,"9G.
SIS in 1921: Gulf. 22.657,Sjo in 1922.
and % 9Ii,l56 IN 1921: Pacific. 6,,9a.-
.22 in 1922 aud a..?l.7oj in 1927.
Many Changes Noticed.
The changes In rank In 1922 a.
comparcd with 1871" the Shippius
Board statement said. reflect the ac-
INVITES OF certain ports in the move
mcut OF export coal To England dur
ing the British coal strike in IN"
spring of 1921. This movement gave
Norfolk Baltimore and Newport
News higher rating in export car
goes cleared than other ports in
which normal business was transact
cd"
The statement said also that in TIN"
import carroes certain Of the oil
ports outrauk ports in which gen
cral transactions are carried on nor
mally. Concerning ;his ono com4mU-
dity trade. the statement said:
''Norfolk and Newport News owe
their rank 10 the export coal trade,
while Port Arthur and Baton Rouge
are almost wholly dependent on the
move of bulk oil Tor their positions.
Norfolk's position as u port Of entry
has improved notably, az this port
ranked sixteenth in Importance in
1927 and eighth in l"22"
y table of port activities for the
hscal year 1922. showing rank ~
Southern ports. exclusive OF Norfolk
eighth aud thirteenth, respectively,
shows: Savannah. fifteenth; Charles
ton. twentieth: Jacksonvillc. twenty
fourth: Brunswick. thirty th.rd. WI
mington. thirty fifth; FernaudiuH.
forty-second; Miami. forty-third. Pen
sacola, twcnty-sixth; Tampa. TWEEN
iy-scvcnth, and Key West. twenty
eiS nth.