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*Fiscal year 1933. Seattle to Tampico, Mex., via Puerto Colombia and Kingston Ocean Mail Contracts Awarded to American Steamship Lines to Oct. Toe 1 (Continued from Preceding Page) Total Annual Payments All Mail Contracts.......... Class 2—20 knots—16,000 tons; Class 1—24 knots—20000 tons. of foreign merchandise, : Payment Route : ooh Class of Vessels Required Fiscal Year Number Steamship Cos. & Termini at Start of Service 1932 Brought forward...... $15,852,089.00 36 Tacoma Oriental Nav. Co. Class 6—10 knots—4500 tons 347,679.00 Portland to Manila and Dairen 37 Panama Mail Steamship Co. Class 5—13 knots—4500 tons 521,872.00 San Francisco to Puerto Colombia. 38 Grace Steamship Company Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons 270,300.00 Tacoma to Valparaiso 39 United Fruit Company Class 6—11 knots—3200 tons 519,784.00 San Francisco to Puerto Armuellas 40 United Fruit Company Class 5—13 knots—7200 tons *485,724.00 New York to Limon (not yet in operation) 41 United Fruit Company Class 6—11 knots—3200 tons 252,460.00 New Orleans to Puerto Colombia ; (not yet in operation) 42 United States Lines Class 1—24 knots—45000 tons 616,128.00 New York to Southampton 43 United States Lines 3 Class 3—18 knots 1,693,584.00 New York to Hamburg 1 Class 4—16 knots 1 Class 5—14 knots 44 United States Lines Class 5—13 knots—8000 tons 1,055,184.00 New York to London 45 Tampa Interocean SS Co. Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons 466,200.00 Gulf ports to Spain and Portugal 46 Roosevelt Steamship Company Class 4—16 knots—7000 tons 1,275,144.00 Baltimore to Hamburg 47 American West African Line Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons 145,980.00 © New Orleans to Ports on West African Coast 48 Oceanic & Oriental Navigation Co. Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons 316,587.00 San Francisco to Dairen, Manchuria 49 Oceanic & Oriental Navigation Co. Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons 375,690.00 San Francisco to Saigon, Indo-China 52 Eastern Steamship Lines Class 2—20 knots—16000 tons *308,620.00 Boston to St. John New York to etniae Not yet in operation 53 POR Diamond Lines, Inc. Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons . 1,381,836.00 New York and other North Atlantic ports to Rotterdam and Antwerp 54 Mobile Oceanic Line Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons 1,084,288.00 East Gulf Ports to United Kingdom and other North European ports 55 Gulf Pacific Mail Line, Ltd. Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons 339,518.00 $27, 308,667.00 Key to Classes: Class 6—10 knots—4000 tons; Class 5—13 knots—8000 tons; Class 4—16 knots—10000 tons; re-exports, American Foreign Trade Figures prepared by the foreign commerce department of the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, and published in the forty-third quarterly issue of Our World Trade show that the total value of our foreign trade, exports plus imports, for the first half of 1931, amounting to $2,423,455,000, was the smallest total for a January-June period since 1914. Exports for the January-June beriod of 1931 totaled $1,316,227,- 000 or 36.6 per cent below the 1930 figure and 44 per cent below the 1926-1930 average value. Exports amounted to $26,417,000, or 28 per cent smaller than a year ago. Imports in the first half of this year amounted to $1,107,228,000, 386.2 per cent smaller than those for the same half of 1930 and 47 per cent below the 5-year average value. Red Cross memberships on the high seas last year totaled 9073 among en- listed men and 14,748 among mercan- tile marines. Both figures represent increases over the previous year. The annual membership campaign of the Red Cross opens this year on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, and extends through Thanksgiving, Nov. 26. MARINE REvIEw—November, 1931 Class of Vessels Required. Date of Mail Contract Two reconstructed vessels Class 5; one during fifth year ofcontract and one later; total est. cost $750,000. July 1, 1929. Two new Class 3 vessels required; a third optional; all contracted for at Federal S.B. Co. Total est. cost $12,750,000. July 1, 1930. One new Class 3 vessel contracted for at Federal S.B. Co. Est. cost $4,200,000. July 1, 1930. hree new vessels of Class 4, Talamanca, Segovia and Chiriqui, contracted for at Newport News S.B. & D.D. Co. Total est. cost $10,575,000. July 1, 1930. Three new vessels of Class 4. Antigua, Veragua and Quirigua, contracted for at Bethlehem §.B. Corp.; total est. cost $10,575,000. March 21, 1930. ; Two new vessels of Class 4 within five years of award. Total est. cost $7,050,000. March 21, 1930, : Two new vessels of Class 1 not later than four years from date of award. ‘Total est. cost $60,000,000. April 24, 1930. Two new vessels of Class 2; contracted for at New York S.B. Co. Total est. cost $21,860,139. April 24, 1930. ; Two new vessels Class 3, depending on five-year extension of present five-year contract. Total est. cost $14,500,000. April 24, 1930. Two new Class 5 vessels; total est. cost $3,900,000. April 6, 1930. Five Class 4 reconstructed vessels Federal S.B. Co.); fifth Nov. 1931; est. total cost $9,220,000, After five years two additional new vessels of Class 3 (conditional). Total est. cost $7,000,000. March 21, 1930 Two new Class 5 vessels, (conditional) total est. cost $3,900,000. July 1, 1930. (at ship completed Two new Class 5 vessels, one within three years and other within seven years; total est. cost $3,900,000. July 1, 1930. Two new Class 5 vessels, one within five years and other within nine years. Total est. cost $3,900,000. July 1, 1930. Two new Class 2 vessels; contracted for at Newport News S.B. & D.D. Co. Total est. cost $8,000,000. Feb. 17, 1931. Five new Class 4 cargo vessels as soon as practicable. Two new cargo vessels, Class 4, additional (optional). Total est. cost $17,500.000. Oct. 1, 1931. Ten reconstructed vessels Class 5, total est. cost $5,000,000. Two new Class 5 vessels (optional); total est. cost $4,000,000 Additional vessels optional with increase of service. Oct. 1, 1931. Two reconstructed Class 5 vessels, total est. cost $500,000. One new Class 5 vessel, est. cost $1,000,000. One new Class 5 vessel (optional) est. cost $1,000,000 One aditional new vessel (optional), est. cost $1,000,000. Oct. 1, 1931 Class 3—18 knots—12000 tons; Annual Report Issued The thirty-second annual report of the American Ship Building Co., Cleveland, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1931, shows a net profit of $43,010.09, although the company in- curred an operating loss of $84,446.29. The gross income from all companies after deducting sales allowances and manufacturing costs and expenses ex- clusive of operating charges amount- ed to $700,977.40. The general depression existing in Great Lakes shipping was naturally reflected in the company’s activities for the year, particularly in relation to the ship repair business. 55