Shipping Company's Charter to Operate Inland Service An important agreement for the charter and operation of all the vessels of the China Merchants] Steam Navigation Company which have been plying in the inland waters of Chekiang and Kiangsu has been signed between the gation Affairs Bureau of the Chekiang Provincial Department of Reconstruction and the compony, according to an announcement by) the Kuo Min News Agency. A special Bureau to take charge of the operation of the various shipping services hax been established] by the Department at Shanghai.
Due to the uncertain conditions prevailing in recent years as well as the keen competition of foreign vessels, many of the inland water services of the China Merchants!
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