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122 N ADDITION to Baltimore’s over- seas freight services is that of the North German Lloyd, which announces semimonthly sailings direct to Bremen from Baltimore—the steamer Porta scheduled for April 4, the steamer Etsenspacu for April 23 and the steamer Hamettn for May 14. Subsequent. sail- ings will be every 1S days. The French ports of St. Nazaire and Dunkirk are now reached by direct sail- ings from Baltimore of vessels of the Texas Transport & Terminal Co., Wil- bur F. Spice & Co., local agents. * Shipments of Pacific coast lumber into Baltimore are showing marked increase, an average of two or three million feet reaching the port every week. This year, it is predicted 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber will move via intercoastal steamers to Atlantic ports. ee ee The North German Lloyd Steamship Co. has announced that it intends at some future date to inaugurate passenger sefrv- ice between Baltimore and German ports. * The Motor Transport Service Corp. js arranging for refrigerator ship service to the port of Baltimore from Los Angeles and San’ Francisco. The vessels used -will range from 8800 to 9400 tons with diesel engines installed. Heavy ship- ments of grapes via this line are ex- pected. The new company is_ incor- porated for $10,000,000. Official figures on grain exports from Baltimore for 1922 are announced as 88,555,199 bushels, in comparison with 56.490,979 bushels in 1921. Corn ship- ments were far in the lead during 1922, the total for this grain being almost double that of a other. Julean Arnold, commercial attache of the United States at Peking, China, will reach Baltimore during February on his tour of American cities. meetings of business men and _ college students are being arranged to hear him. * The shipping board has allocated the steamer Totosa, 8550 tons deadweight, to the Export Transportation Co., Balti- more, for operation on its Baltimore- Liverpool service. * * A new vessel service from Baltimore to Miami, Fla., via Charleston, S. C., has been announced by the Baltimore & Carolina Steamship Co. Two ships are being reconditioned for this service. They are the Mary Weems and the ESTHER WEEMS. ee ee At the annual dinner of the Traffic club of Baltimore on Feb.: 5, W. M. Brittain, general manager of the Ex- port and Import board of. trade, ad- dressed the club on “A Bold Innovation in Transportation,” being an-account of the recent visit of the Baltimore trade and shipping delegation to middle western freight centers. The visit of the Balti- more delegation to the middle west is already bearing fruit, a volume of in- Along the Atlantic at Special - MARINE REVIEW quiries and bookings having begun to reach the port from a number of the points visited. * Ok The Porto Rico American Steamship Corp. has been chartered in Delaware with a capitalization of $2,000,000 by officials of the Baltimore Steamship Co. of Baltimore. The new line will devote much of its attention to the carriage of coal and_ timber. * * * A preliminary meeting of the proposed North Atlantic Ports asociation was held in New York on Feb. 6, with delegates present from Boston, New York, Phila- delphia, Baltimore, and Norfolk. W. M. Brittain and R. C. Herd represented the NEW port on San Francisco bay is to be established at Wilson’s Landing, by the business men of Palo Alto, at the southern end of the bay. Fifty years ago, Wilson’s Landing was an important port, but it has fallen into disuse, with the laying of railroads down the peninsula. The channel is to be dredged and a wharf and warehouse built. The money has been raised and the ‘survey is now be- | ing made. eo ee The entire ocean bottom off the west coast of America, from Point Descanso in Mexico to a point slightly north of San Francisco is to be surveyed by gov- ernment scientists, co-operating with the navy department, and working on the torpedo boat destroyers Hutt and Corry. The objective is the thorough study of the cause and effect of earthquakes on the ocean floor along the west coast. ee anne The Compagnie Generale Transatlan- tique announces that it will place soon a new passenger and freight steamer of late design and recent construction, in its service between San Francisco and Hav- re, St. Nazaire and Colon. The new steamer has been named Cusa, and she is 495 feet long, 63 feet beam, and 38 feet deep, with accommodations, first class, for 280 persons. This ‘is the first combination freight and passenger vessel to be placed in this service by this company. ‘> * oe The Robert Dollar Steamship Co. has chartered a Japanese steamer to load lumber at British Columbia ports for New York at $15.50 sometime during February. eee The Union Oil Co. has chartered. the tanker ImMLAy from the shipping board for 10 round voyages between San Fran- cisco and San Pedro, Cal. CAS J. J. Moore & Co.,, has fixed the Miran Maru, 3409 tons, to load lum- ber at Humboldt and Puget sound for On Californian Shores March, 1923 Export and Import board of trade of Baltimore. eee The Baltimore Foreign Trade club held its first meeting of the present season on Feb. 8. William Werckenthein, ex- port manager of the Island Petroleum Co., spoke on the functions of export commission houses and their value to a port such as Baltimore. Moving pictures of the harbor’s terminal activities were shown. *k * x The Southern Pacific railroad has fin- ally been authorized by the interstate commerce commission to enter the port of Baltimore with direct steamship serv- ice from Galveston and other gulf ter- minals. Numerous applications in the past from this company had been re- fused. xk ok * It is understood that the Clyde Steam- ship Co. is having specifications prepared for two passenger and freight vessels. Australia at $14 for February loading. * * * W. L. Comyn & Co. has chartered the bark HavisipE, 2132 tons, to load lumber at Puget sound and Ketchikan for Melbourne, arider private terms. The state board of harbor commis- sioners of San Francisco is offering for sale the tug James N. GILueTtT, Jr., at public sale to the highest bidder. * Crowley & Mahony, San _ Francisco, have purchased the steamer CoLUMBIA from W. R. Grace & Co., for $75,000. CoLtuMstiA is of 968 tons, was built in 1912, and is being sent with cargo from New Orleans to San Franeisco, where she will be delivered to her new owners and immediately put into the coastwise lumber trade. re ae _The Redstack Tugboat Co. San Fran- cisco, has sent the tug TaAtToosH, to Puget sound to join the fleet of the Lillice Barge & Tugboat Co. The Sra Mon- ARCH, another of this company’s tugs, has been operating in northern waters for some time, and another, the SEA Lark, is to be sent northward as soon as she returns from a trip to southern waters. Cee a The city of Oakland, Cal., took the first steps, in January toward construc- tion of the new municipal pier, by starting the driving of the first 1000 piles. The new wharf is to be the first of three sister structures, all projecting at an angle into the estuary, eastward along the wall of the Municipal quay. Each one of these’ municipal wharves will be 575 feet 9 inches long on the western side and 532 feet on the eastern, and each will cost $225,000. Each will be large enough to accommodate one 535-type vessel of the shipping board, on each side. Plans for all three wharves have been completed but funds for only one have been voted. \Wharfhouses and sheds are comprehended in construction costs.