Pilot lore; from sail to steam . now operates a regular berth service withAmerican flag ships between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,Boston and U. S. Gulf ports, to Ireland, to Scandinavia and theBaltic, to the West Indies, Mexico and the Caribbean, to the EastCoast of South America, to the Mediterranean and the Levant, toIndia, and to West Coast of the United States. The management of the Commercial Steamship Lines is entirelyin the hands of the Moore & McCormack Company, Inc. In addi-tion to several other general agencies, both American and its home office in New York the
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . now operates a regular berth service withAmerican flag ships between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,Boston and U. S. Gulf ports, to Ireland, to Scandinavia and theBaltic, to the West Indies, Mexico and the Caribbean, to the EastCoast of South America, to the Mediterranean and the Levant, toIndia, and to West Coast of the United States. The management of the Commercial Steamship Lines is entirelyin the hands of the Moore & McCormack Company, Inc. In addi-tion to several other general agencies, both American and its home office in New York the company also has branchoffices at Philadelphia, at Havana, Cuba, at Cork, Ireland, and atGothenburg, Sweden with well established agencies at all other ports,of call. When the United States Shipping Board started the UnitedStates Lines as a great trans-Atlantic passenger service Moore &McCormack Co., Inc., was selected as one of the three representative-New York companies to whom its management was entrusted. — 280 —. PHILIP DE RONDEPresident of the Oriental Navigation Company THE NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA (Jafian TVlai) Steamship Co. J THIS great Japanese company was established in 1885 and todayis considered Japans foremost marine transportation was the result of an amalgamation of two separate concerns,namely, the Kyodo Unyo Kaisha (Union Transport Co.) and theMitsu-bishi Kaisha (The Three Diamonds Company.) The com-pany was then capitalized at Yen 11,000,000 and the fleet com-prised 58 steamers, approximately 69,000 tons. Today the fleetnumbers 103 vessels with an aggregate of 500,000 gross tons andits steamers encircle the globe. At first the company confined its activities to the coastal trade,later extending its operations to Korea, North China and Vladivo-stock, and in 1893 inaugurated its first regular ocean service toand from Bombay, thus materially aiding the growth of the cottonindustry in Japan. In 1896 it extended its activities to foreign waters, increas
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