888 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE,
Petrograd.
San Francisco.
Savona.
Smyrna.
St. Louis du Rhone.
Venice.
Plymouth.
Longhope.
Zanzibar, and others.
Amsterdam.
Bahia Blanca.
Bilbao.
Bermuda.

As shown below this control by English dealers of depots and disfributing
 facilities in foreign markets is one of the primary elements
 in their supremacy over American coal exporters.
The Wilson Interests.—Another factor of equal importance to
British coal companies in foreign markets is their relation to business
 houses and coal-consuming industrial plants in those markets.
For example, in Argentina, the Wilson interests, an important group
of English coal producers and exporters, are associated through
common directors with the following companies:
Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway.
Buenos Aires Western Railway.
Mortgage Co. of the River Plate.
Primitiva Gas Co. (Buenos Aires).
River Plate Trust, Loan &amp; Agency Co.
The Wilson interests include Wilson Sons &amp; Co., Ocean Coal &amp;
Wilson’s, Litd., Deep Navigation Collieries, and Ocean Coal Co.
These four companies are closely affiliated through common directors,
every director of each company being a director in one or more of
the other companies.
Numerous other British companies that are of importance
in the domestic and foreign coal trade of Great Britain, such
as Hull, Blyth &amp; Co., Watts, Watts &amp; Co., J. Cory &amp; Sons, etc., reveal
 similar coordination of mining operations, ship chartering,
bunkering, coal selling, transportation, and distributing agencies,
ste. (See Pt. II, pp. 584-590.)
It is apparent, then, that the singleness of action and policy which
Germany obtains in her coal export trade by the Rhenish-Westphalian,
 and Upper Silesian coal cartels is effected in the British export
 coal business by single large companies or by the union of competing
 and complementary companies through common directors and
managers, so that operating, transporting, and distributing agencies
are united for the conduct of foreign business.