Negotiations have just been Completed for the acquisition of ten. Mooring buoys extending from opposite the Old Dock and to the front of the Mitsu Bussan Kaisha the Custom's depart-
The buoys formerly belonged to nine different companies, the Shanghai Dock and Engineeri Company, Indo-China Steam Nation.' Company, Shanghai and Navigation Company, Osean Sex Wharf Company, P. & 0.|! Ocean ae China Merchants Yosun Keisha and Osaka" Showen Navigation Company, Nippon
Kaisha, The acquisition of the buoys Iwas found necessary in order that The Harbour authorities could GPatiee control. Where former B'buoy to keep the Lerth vacant until one, its own sels used by: aay steamer desiring. the into' port, the. space will. now
Ioorings. "Two or three of the Eompaticg who have sold their in ferest still retain prior claim on the buoys by. paying, rent. to. the a thorities: This has been allowed as the companies. concerned are con-Stantly using them and-at no time will the space be Tet ide Shortage of accommodation in the harbour: at the present time is very acute, all available space being used and even now at times the river is congested, The recent purchase will be invaluable to the American steamers carrying wheat in aid of the Flood Relief as the majority: of ills around. Soochow ated that should' it be found. necessary to unload these vessels at the Standard Oil wharves it will cost each steamer over £800 in sterling for the extra demurrage and lighterage. It. has been stated that two of the finest deaths in the river for seme un-Known reason have hardly had six ving the past tion of the harbour beyond realise tion, Three of the purchased buoys already possess. the new sinkers and The others. will be_ similarly equ ped as their old style of anchorage Wears out, These sinkers are a cent innovation. which ave greatly appreciated by" captains as. they allow vessels to anchor close to. the Duoys without the danger of getting the cables entangled with the old-fashion anchors which spread every direction. Instead of a buoy Doing held by cables which stretd, out for hundreds of feet in several Givections to. four seven ton anchors, the buoys are now held bya single chain of extra thickness which is attached toa eight ton pyramidical cast iron sinker which buried underneath 24° feet of The advantages are obvious. Instead of vessel being compelled to Anchor a_distance away from. the rwooring berth it an" now drop ts anchor almost alongside without any risk. Where formerly. a. vessel any size possessing a big wind frontage was, Tiable to endanger itself. whilst tying up toa buoy in ale the danger is now negligible,
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