Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 17 | Docking Facilities Greatly Increased

DOCKING FACILITIES GREATLY INCREASED IJN'DON, March 17. In spite of th ! war a great deai of prosrese has been j maie in establishing Increased dockins facilities hera. They are expected to help I restore much of the lost trade of the 1 Thame and to make London a stronger t competitor of other ports In the United Kingdom. When the war ends gigantic efforts are to be made to regain for London much of tha trans-shipment traffic traf-fic which in recent years was captured by Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. The scheme now being carried out calls for dockage for bipger ships. At Tilburv. where a big lanldng ra?:e i being built, berths are now ready for steamers of 25.-000 25.-000 grota tons, or nearly double the tonnage ton-nage that couid have been accommodated there before the war began.