Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 456
UDK: 600 eng - gl.
Volume I with 520 Illustrations, Maps and Diagrams
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256
ENGINEERING WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
Financial
Position
of the
Company.
Coincident with the remarkable progress in
the traffic receipts and high dividends that
prevail, the dues have been reduced. Origin-
ally the tariff for all laden
vessels stood at 8s. per ton ;
in the ’eighties it was reduced
to 7s., and at a later date to
the existing levy of 6s. per ton.
passenger vessels has always
The tariff for
remained the same—8s. per ton. The reserve
funds of the Company to-day stand at
£1,000,000. A special fund provides for the
acquisition of new machinery to maintain and
improve the Canal. By the purchase in
1875, for £3,976,582, of the 176,602 £20
original shares held by the Khedive, the
British Government obtained joint control
over the Canal with France. Twelve years
later a convention was signed at Paris which
placed the Canal under a joint Commission,
and guaranteed its neutrality and a free
passage for ships in time of war.
THE LESSEPS MONUMENT, PORT SAID.