Welsh industries made great strides in the first half of this gear when the ports handled over 2,000,000 tons more traffic than in the same period last year, According to returns issued by the Great Western Railway not a single Ocean-going Welsh ship is laid up. The Welsh fleet, totalling nearly 200 vessels, is actively trading at the years. ons highest freights for at least eight
The "chief features of the import trade at all ports this year has been a big jump in arrivals of iron ore, but there has been a heavy decline in imports of other raw materials for the steel rade which it is hoped may be recovered following the recent cut in tariffs, Pitwood timber and oil imports are all up. Coal exports for the halt-ear were 1,750,000 tons higher at 9,823073 tons, and there was a big jump in shipments of tinplates and irón and steel goods,
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