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Show DIRECT ROUTING OF ALLCARGOES Roads Plan For Hastening of Transportation and Result Proves Satisfactory. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 Direct routing, unification of cargoes, loading to full capacity and reduction of the time in port has resulted In a fifty per cent increase in tho efficiency of American bottoms, it was announced tonight by the shipping board. According to the transportation records, rec-ords, which mark the first effort in the history of American shipping for a centralized organization to contrast the performance of various ships with a view to speeding tlieru up, two vessels ves-sels now aro doing the work which before be-fore the war required three. On the Pacific coast, the announcement announce-ment saMd, the average turn-arounds for ships In the coastwise trade rapidly rap-idly are approaching record performances perform-ances of ante-bellum days. The swift-tor swift-tor bottoms there as elsewhere, have been sent to the Atlantic for war transportation to Europe but the vessels ves-sels allocated to the trade with the Orient and Australia havo saved time by calling at fewer ports and by loading load-ing and unloading more quickly than In the past. Recently tho Ventura, made Honolulu, Hono-lulu, Sydney, Pago Pago, Back to Honolulu Hon-olulu and thence to San Francisco in sixty-two days. This feat wos duplicated dupli-cated by the Sonoma. The average round trip timo between be-tween San Francisco or Seattle and China including days in port has been cut to eighty-one, and new vessels to be' put into trade soon are expected to reduce that time. Only sixty-eight days now arc required for the round trip to Japanese ports. Round trips between San Francisco and the Philippines including Manila, Cavite. Hong Kong, Shanghni, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu range from eighty-four to 130 days while between New York and Manila a long voyage In these war days and made only because be-cause of vital need of certain commodities com-modities only 165 days is required. In the Atlantic trado similar conditions con-ditions prevail. The former two trips a month average between Norfolk, Baltimore and Boston has been Increased In-creased to four trips. Ships formerly made four trips a year between the United States and Chilean ports bringing bring-ing nitrate, highly important to war industries. Recently Commodore Rollins Rol-lins made the turn -around in forty-four forty-four days. Other records established include an eighty-five-days turnaround turn-around to Ria Janeiro and a seventy-four seventy-four day round trip botween Norfolk and irara. The average turn-around in tho Mexican oil trade has been reduced re-duced to eleven days and some tankers tank-ers have made the trip in a week. 00 |