Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-09-22 | Page 1 | Grain Hauling Ships Scarce

GRAIN CRAIN HAULING s SHIPS SCARCE Rates nates Are Up to ic 3 Per I Cwt Blame Coal Traffic I MONTREAL Sept By 20 ByTh The Associated Press Due Press Due to the continued demand for tor ships to carry rry coal from the tho United States to the lie British Isles of the coal coat strike a scarcity ot of shipping tor for th l th transportation or of Canadian grain crain across tho the Atlantic Is becoming manifest manlest In Montreal says the tho Montreal Gazette Transportation rates for tor grain have havo risen so high the paper says that It Is la now unattractive for European buyers to take tako grain the th continent As high a a rate as 30 billings a a ton has bas been qu for fot foran toran an early steamer to carry Amert Amert- can coal ij tj England It Is ii figured that the equivalent ot of this rate rato In Ingrain ingrain grain transportation to the tho conti conti- continent conti- conti continent continent nent is around per hundred hundred- hundredweight weight hundred weight 00 00