THE TURN-ROUND OF A SHIP IN PORT at 
voyage. Considered as a store or warehouse, she is much 
too costly. The overhead or capital charges on her special 
construction, her machinery, her navigating appliances, 
her crew’s quarters, etc., are entirely unremunerative. 
The cost of a modern cargo vessel's stay in port may be 
reckoned at several hundred pounds per diem and, in the 
interests of commerce and the attraction of trade to a port, 
every effort should be made to reduce the period of stay. 
The port authority can assist the shipowners in this 
direction by the installation of up-to-date and efficient 
cargo handling appliances and by discarding old-fashioned 
and out-of-date methods of procedure. The matter is 
one which in the general national interest, in the present 
stress of competition with other nationalities for the 
world’s trade, merits the closest and most anxious attention 
from all who are engaged in port work in any shape or 
form. 
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