Administration of Ports: (a) Ports and the Government
| Published date | 01 July 1938 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1938.tb02091.x |
| Author | A. T. V. Robinson |
| Date | 01 July 1938 |
Administration
of
Ports
(a)
Ports
and
the
Government
By
A.
T.
V.
ROBINSON,
C.B.,
C.B.E.
[PaPer to
be
discussed at the Summer Conference
of
the Institute
of
Public
Administration,
Bristol,
July,
19383
HE
total annual value
of
our overseas trade, import and export,
T
is
well over
a
thousand million pounds sterling. The correspond-
ing figure
of
our coastwise trade does not seem to be available, but
the tonnage
of
coasting vessels, arrived and departed, in Great
Rritain is shown
as
something like three-quarters
of
the figure for
ocean shipping.
All
these ships,
all
these cargoes, need the facilities
and the services
of
our
British
Ports.
It
may well be expected that
the administration
of
the undertakings which handle these vast
transactions should be
a
matter of concern
to
the State.
(2)
Ports
and Port. Authorities may be classified
in
various ways.
In the Appendix to this paper the several
Ports,
as
known to the
Customs and to the
I'
Annual Statement
of
Trade
of
the United
Kingdom," have been grouped into four classes according to the
volume
of
their trade: over
m.10;
from
AM.2-10;
from
fli-2;
and less than
m.*.l
The Appendix
shows
that of
a
total trade
of
LM.1,300,
well
over
m.500
passed through the Port
of
London and approximately
m.300
through
the
Port
of
Liverpool; these
two
and the other
dozen
ports
in Class
I
handled between them over
fi;M.1,200;
sixteen
ports
in
Class
I1
handled
a
further
,t;Rl.80;;
while
the
remaining
seventy-three ports in Classes
I11
and IV dealt with
jG1M.30.
(3)
To
the student
of
public administration
it
is
of interest to
note the types
of
constitution
of
Port Authorities
as
public utility
Deputy Secretary
of
the Ministry
of
Transfiort
1
The
symbol
@.
is
used throughout
9
paper
to
represtft
million
pounds.
Figures
in
the
Appendix
are
based
upon
the
Annual
Statement
for
1936,
as
1937
The
"
Trade
anb
Navigation
Accounts
for
DecemlbeT,
1937,
show
provisional
figurea
of
imiports
(indud-
~g
'goods
kr
re-export)
@.I,oz~,
U.X.
gds
exported
p.522,
imm
@
IE-
exported
m.75,
a
grand
total
of
nearly
~.1,700.
for
the
eved,,pts are
not
available
at
the time
od
writing.
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