Shanghai Tug & Lighter Co.'s New Scheme of a Fleet of Motor Trucks to Supplement Its Fleet on Water: Weight on the. Roads were" has been heard for several years past and teems to tend, rather to increase in volume than. to diminish, but one hears of remarkably few of the really well-established firms going out of business. Still more remarkable, every now and again, one or other of' those hongs whose names_are household words in the Far East, actually extends its operations.
The latest example is provided by} the Shanghai Tug & Lighter Ca, La. (Messrs, Wheelock & Ca. agents) who already have part of an extension of their hi in a state to commence operations and expect to have it in full going order within another month or two.
"One can not go_ back to: the early days of some of the oldest inhabitants Shanghai without getting to the. beginning of the agitation for improvement of the port. Thi development of Woosung is a very old story and before the birth of who now. are prosperous ess men here, plots along the!
ing waterfront Were acquired and still are held—with a view, to sion of the most advantage ous sites when "Woosung a port' should become a fact. This scheme, still is nothing more than a subject of occasional discussion, and though ment for this purpose, and this number is utterly inadequate to the pipers. In general, shippers have made little complaint regarding the handling of their goods by motor transport beyond the fact that it is impossible always to be certain of finding trucks available, and delay all too frequently means the difference between profit and loss. This so frequently was brought to the notice of the Tug "Lighter (Ca., that eventually the directors decided to extend. their operations on shore,
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