Identifier: portsterminalfac00mace (find matches)
Title: Ports and terminal facilities
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: MacElwee, Roy Samuel, 1883-1944
Subjects: Harbors Transportation Railroad stations
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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l:one berths at the piers of the Boston and Albany at East Boston, andthe other at the Charlestown piers of the Boston and Maine. A shippergets a 10-cent rail rate to the Charlestown piers and a steamship rateto Liverpool of 12^^ cents, making the freight to Liverpool 22^^ cents.^Now, if the shipper has to pay a rail freight at 121-^ cents instead of 10cents to the East Boston piers, the through rate to Liverpool will be25 cents instead of 223^ cents. The steamship line berthing at EastBoston will, therefore, have to cut its own rate of 12>^ cents to 10 centsto meet the through rate of 223-^ cents, in order to compete with theother Liverpool ship at the Charlestown piers. The ship line with a cutof 20% in its freight rate will be discouraged from coming to the port,because other than railroad berthing facilities will not enable it to com-pete with other ocean carriers which have secured some of the fewfavorable positions. * Of course under pre-war conditions. 58 PORTS AND TERMINALS
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Fig. 17-—Map of port of Philadelphia. COMPETITION AT THE TERMINALS 59 This inequality between the shipping lines will also work to thedisadvantage of the shipper, because of its inflexibility. Take a casebrought to the attention of the Port Directors. The InternationalMercantile Marine Company had operating to Liverpool the WhiteStar Line from a Boston & Maine (Charlestown) pier and the LelandLine from a Boston & Albany (East Boston) pier. The Leland Linehad practically weekly sailings; the White Star Line sailed fortnightly insummer and monthly in winter. During the winter several cars ofpaper arrived from Maine over the Boston & Maine, consigned to theInternational Mercantile Marine Company for export to Liverpool.It happened that the cars missed the White Star boat. There wouldnot be another White Star sailing for a month. A Leland liner sailedthe next week from East Boston. The I. M. M. Co. could not, as itcould at New York or any other port having a full belt-line e

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