Table No. 3 - ALL-RAIL EXPORT COMMODITY RATES, CARLOADS, FROM POINTS IN CENTRAL FREIGHT ASSOCIATION TERRITROY TO NORTH ATLANTIC PORTS PHILADELPHIA RATES ALSO APPLY TO WILMINGTON, CHESTER, EDDYSTONE, GLOUCESTER, AND CAMDEN. NEW YORK RATES APPLY TO TRENTON (In cents per 100 pounds, in effect January 27, 1948) Commodity ALL-RAIL IMPORT COMMODITY RATES, CARLOADS, FROM NORTH ATLANTIC PORTS TO POINTS IN CENTRAL FREIGHT ASSOCIATION TERRITORY Tariff authorities, Agent W. S. Curlett's No. 43-E, I.C.C. A-647 and Agent I. N. Doe's No. 26-E, I.C.C. 439. 56 70 51 50 54 84 87 45 48 44 43 29 28 31 To Table No. 6 - EXPORT AND DOMESTIC RATES ON BILLETS, BLOOMS, INGOTS, BARS, PLATES, AND VARIOUS OTHER IRON AND STEEL ARTICLES, CARLOADS, FROM CENTRAL FREIGHT ASSOCIATION TERRITORY TO NORTH ATLANTIC PORTS PHILADELPHIA RATES ALSO APPLY TO CAMDEN, EDDYSTONE, AND WILMINGTON. NEW YORK RATES APPLY TO TRENTON Philadelphia Norfolk New York Tariff authority, Agent B. T. Jones' I.C.C. 3795. Table No. 7 EXPORT AND DOMESTIC RATES ON VARIOUS IRON AND STEEL ARTICLES, INCLUDING PIG IRON, INGOT MOULDS, INGOT MOULD PHILADELPHIA RATES ALSO APPLY TO CAMDEN, EDDYSTONE, AND WILMINGTON. NEW YORK RATES APPLY TO TRENTON. Tariff authority, Agent B. T. Jones' I.C.C. 3795. Boston Table No. 8 EXPORT AND DOMESTIC RATES ON MANUFACTURED IRON AND STEEL ARTICLES, INCLUDING STRUCTURAL STEEL FRAMES, TIES, EXPORT RATES ON IRON AND STEEL ARTICLES, CARLOADS, FROM EASTERN PRODUCING POINTS TO ATLANTIC PORTS Table No. 10 - PROPORTIONAL EXPORT AND DOMESTIC, RESHIPPING RATES ON GRAIN AND FLOUR, CARLOADS, FROM CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA RATES ALSO APPLY TO CHESTER AND WILMINGTON. NEW YORK RATES APPLY TO TRENTON. Table No. 12 IMPORT RATES ON FERTILIZER AND FERTILIZER MATERIALS, CARLOADS, TO INTERSTATE POINTS (In cents per ton of 2,000 pounds, minimum weight 40,000 pounds; in effect February 25, 1948) IMPORT RATES ON SUGAR, BEET OR CANE, CARLOADS, MINIMUM WEIGHT 60,000 POUNDS FROM ATLANTIC PORTS TO INTERSTATE POINTS IMPORT RATES ON COCOA BEANS, CARLOADS, FROM NORTH ATLANTIC PORTS TO POINTS IN CENTRAL FREIGHT ASSOCIATION TERRITORY NEW YORK RATES APPLY FROM TRENTON. COMMERCE Tables Nos. 1 to 11, which follow, are summations of heretofore unpublished data showing the volume of traffic handled by water during the years 1943-46 at and in the vicinity of specified localities on the Delaware River below and above the limits of the port of Philadelphia. These tables are not intended to depict the traffic movements on the Delaware River past the individual localities; they cover only the tonnages loaded and unloaded at water front terminals on a given stretch of the river and on specified sections of the tributary waterways. In several instances the tables cover the traffic at more than one of the localities discussed in this report and, from the data at hand, no further segregation by localities is practicable. The localities covered by each table and the average annual traffic handled at such localities during the period 1943-46 are shown below: Table 12 Localities Delaware City and New Castle, Del., and vicinity- vicinity Claymont, Del., and Marcus Hook, Pa., and vicinity----- 3 4 5 6 Bridgeport and Thompson Point, N. J., and vicinity- 8 Burlington, Florence, and Roebling, N.J., and vicinity 9 Fieldsboro and Bordentown, N. J., and vicinity-- 10 Trenton, N. J. Average traffic (Short tons) 14,855 946,986 10,727,177 1,038,534 212,617 2,635,463 1,448,895 918,599 32,959 182,215 FOREIGN TRAFFIC None of the localities above Philadelphia received or shipped either foreign or coatswise traffic. Below Philadelphia the import traffic consisted chiefly of blackstrap molasses and beet residual received at Deepwater Point, crude petroleum and iron pyrites received at Claymont and Marcus Hook, logwood and dyewood received at Chester, and crude petroleum and some gasoline and fuel |