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SHIPPING RATES are dropping as demand caused by Suez stoppage tapers off and new ships go into service. Freighter tolls for coal from East Coast to Europe are at 18-month low of $7.42 a ton v. $9.52 in March and record $16.52 in December...
...flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo. Another heavily laden LST had already made its way safely across the East China Sea to Formosa. Later, a freighter was to complete the epic task of saving from Communist hands the art treasures assembled over the centuries, and collected in the Peking Palace Museum and Nanking's Central Museum...
...already the pent-up tide of trade had rushed past the diplomats. Last week the unofficial boycott which several Western governments had managed to maintain against the reopened canal crumbled under shipowners' pressure. The first British ship since last October's invasion-the freighter West Breeze with a cargo of peanuts from Hong Kong-went through the canal and paid its dues in Swiss francs (Nasser has not yet consented to accept either French or British currencies). The ship was chartered by a Hong Kong firm doing business with Red China; nonetheless the flag that fluttered from...
...implementing his "power policy." If the United States would place one of her "fat, sleek, new cruisers" in the Gulf of Aqaba, there would be little chance of the Egyptians trying to stop Israeli shipping, he said. He also felt that a U.S. destroyer could safely lead an Israeli freighter through the Suez. These steps should only be taken if all other diplomatic measures failed, however, he pointed...
...CASTLE, Del., March 7--A freighter and a Navy-owned tanker slammed together early today at the "Graveyard" bend of the Delaware River, setting off an explosion that ripped a 100-foot hole in the fuel carrier...