The facilities for the of all these vessels are bardy sufficient, especially as the tendency sit the time is to have deeper and deeper drafts. The actual frontage with lowest low water depths at the "normal" or pier head line of more than 24 ft, is only 14,600 ft, and of this barely %,000 ft. has a lowest low water depth more than 30 ft. In addition there are 19 mid-fact that a great deal of coal is consumed in Shanghai, all the coal wharve: are on the Pootung side of the river 2,200,000. tons of coal were imported in 1924, There are no conveyers as yet for handling coal, except at the Power Station, which however only 1 lighters which have been previously loaded from ships or wharves. The oil business is also concentrated on the Pootung side. The installations are at the lower part of the Harbour and occupy considerable frontage, some of which is not yet fully developed. Strong demand actually exists for further frontage for oil installations and the Maritime Customs is endeavouring to realize a scheme of segrega gasoline storage and sene storage at Gough 1 below the present harbour, where the Conservancy Board has reclaimed the old river-bed for conservancy and har-hour purposes.
The handling of cereals is not specialized to any extent. In 1924 over 300,000 tons of rice and nearly 400,000 tons of wheat were imported, of which the rice was nearly all re-exported to other parts of China. Much of this was handled in sacks.
Goods connected the textile business play an enormous part in the trade of Shanghai, but as yet there are no special mechanisms or storage for them. Quite apart from yarns and manufactured, goods, 150,000 tons of raw cotton were imported in 1924.
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