Riwy. Terminal Depot Small:
Corordination Between Har-hour and Rwy.
From Nur Own Correspondent.
Tsingtao, Apr. 11
In connexion with the question of louding and wulonding facilities now under discussion between Jocal foreign business mon and the new Administration, " number of merchants favour a' scheme to Tet the Kiao-Tsi Railway control the business of the Harbour}
Department in view of the fuet that Tsingtao is the railway's terminal port, Ib is felt thus} unless there" ig ce-ordination between the Harbour Department, and the railway, congestions of enrgo could 1 er te subistactorily eliminated, The well-known principle is that the "volume. of which a line would ewry exceed the capacity of the hae been prov the Ametien practice of ra control of terminal fa During the progress when the railways did not control terminal facilities, abnal congestions—_oceirred, using huge. shipments hold back. "It is admitted that those were abnormal times, but even in the ordinary course of commerce, congestions are liable to occur where there is not some ce-ordination between harbour Aepartments and the railways ing merchandise to seaports ment abroad.
example is cited of the which resulted under he former Harbour Administration, HOE POTENTIAL COAL EXPORT, 'The amount of morchanc now exported from this port very great, und in the years to ome " will especially in the cise coal.' Merchants intereated in the coal' business affrro that there is doubt the annual tonnage of coal transportation from' the mines ab Teuchuan,—Pochan, Takunlun and elsewhere will Amount to ab least 2,560,000 tons by the your 1990, and that fully one-half will be' exported. The demand abroad for Chines coal is go groat that it is felt th fore going estimated export tonnage an exaggerated one tonnage, it would be necessary to In order to handle. this huge Drovide'a yard. which must be sufficient to store at least. the amount of coal for one month, 60} to be able, to handle the tuations which occur from to time in both water and Tt would be necessary to have 0 sulicient. soa frontage along this yard for the the interval an efficient aystem of lighterage should be inaugurate ed, enabling lighters to approach the coal piles om land, Local business men are opinion that tha volume of traffic carried by any' railway ix more} for less governed by thu capacity of terminal faci Untose the terminal facilities, ate off required space it would detrimental tthe progress of the Kino-tsi Railway. It isy therefore, thought highly essential that there should be a close operation between the Wharf Administration and. the rail Te is well known to business men hero that the had tried fis occasions to, arrive with the with a means: ment of and water of the authorities and public, The management of thy Wharf business should in the opinion of ral prominent tbustiivss set, should be in the hands of the Railway tion, while the Municipal Administration out satisfactorily compensation for the less revenue og a result of the transfer Of the management of harbour' facilities from the Harbour partment to the Kiao-tsi Raifway, the Intter should pay. -cortain sums regularly to the Municipal Administration. All surpluses; should he devoted to. improve-monts in harbour facilities.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.