SLASHING ATTACK ON SHIPPING COMPANY'S RATE-CUTTING
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A VIGOROUS condemnation of .1t alleged rate-cutting by .coastalshipping interests is contained in a circular issued by Dick, Jackson and Co., Ltd., London, S.E.1, over the signature of Mr. C. Robert Gray, general manager, and dated April 4. It is stated that the company introduced the first road-haulage service from London to the north-east coast in November, 1930, and the
weekly tonnage rose from 20 to the present figure of 450, carried on behalf of some 150 customers.
A competitive shipping 'company decided, it is stated, recently to establish a rate of 30s. per ton, representing a cut in the road-transport company's prices of as much as 5s. a ton.
The shipping company is stated to have informed Mr. J. R. Lindsay Daish, managing director of the road-transport concern, that it intends to gain traffic ".by methods Of price-cutting, irrespective of economic consequences," and requested Dick, Jackson and Co., Ltd., to withdraw its long-distance ser'vice in return for local traffic in London provided by the shipping company; that suggestion was rejected.
Mr. Gray alleges that it is the shipping concern's intention to restore its previous rate of 41s. 8d. per ton when road-transport competition has been removed. Dick, Jackson and Co., Ltd., has inaugurated a fiat rate (no minimum) up to 10 tons of 29s. per ton and 28s. per ton for consignments of over that weight, in respect of butter, cheese, bacon and lard.