What is the Ranking? ito the Baditor of the "Worru-citua Dairy News"
Sin—Some weeks ago I ran across an ande ina Home paper. giving the name of the six leading "chipe ing ports in the world. If 1 re-ember rightly the leading port was 2 European port and London and/or New York came third or fourth.
Can you or any of our readers sive me the names of these ports? trade, coastal trade, river—and inland shipping. However, if the same system were applied to European ports Antwerp would add the trame on the Sheldt, Rotterdam the gramme on the Rhine and the latter port would reach figure of more than £0 million tons.
Altogether one could say that New York and London are the largest seaports of the world, and that Rot terdam, Antwerp and Hamburg strive with each other for third, fourth and Aiftheplace. Only then follow the seven or dight large ports, mention-4 in the Editor's note, and amongst these Shanghai, Shanghai, Oct, 6, Wacea, Shanghai, Oct. 8, world (net tonnage entering) are as fo stone five greatest ports in the
lows: New Yorks London' Los Angeles, Son Franctaco; Liverpool; followed S\group of 8 ports of about qual ime portance," of which Shanghai is one
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