24 THECUB A REVIEW 



JOINT COMMITTEE ON WEST INDIES 

 TRANSPORTATION 



The Joint Committee on West Indies Transportation, appointed by the United States 

 Shipping Board and the United States Food Administration, has been organized, with Mr. 

 Alfred Gilbert Smith, President of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, as 

 chairman. The other members of the Committee are Mr. Frank C. Mmison, President of the 

 Munson Steamship Line; Mr. B. R. Stoddard, President of the West India Steamship Com- 

 pany; Mr. Ernest M. Bull, Vice-President of the Bull-Insular Line, Inc.; and Mr. Franklin D. 

 Mooney, President of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company. 



It is understood the Committee will take general charge of the movement of West Indian 

 raw sugars for the season of 1917-1918, and in co-operation with the Cuban Producers Com- 

 mittee, Mr. Manuel Rionda, Chairman, and the International Sugar Committtee, Mr. George 

 M. Rolph, Chairman, will work out plans for loading, discharging and movement of the sugars 

 so as to accomplish maximum efficiency in order that the necessary transportation be given 

 with a minimum nimiber of ships. 



The headquarters of the Joint Committee on West Indies Transportation will be 111 Wall 

 Street, New York City, which is also the headquarters of the International Sugar Committee 

 and the Cuban Producers Committee. 



The Joint Committee on West Indies Transportation will receive requests for assignments 

 of vessels to take care of sugars w^hich will be offered for shipment by Cuban shippers and pro- 

 ducers through the intermediary of the Cuban Producers Committee. 



The Joint Committtee on West Indies Transportation will receive requests for assignments 

 of vessels to take care of sugars which will be offered for shipment by Cuban shippers and 

 producers through the intermediary of the Cuban Producers Committee. 



The official rates as determined by the Joint Committee on West Indies Transportation 



are: 



PROPOSED RATES ON SUGAR. 



FROM CUBA: 



North Side ports to New York and Philadelphia per 100 pounds. 



Havana or Matanzas or Cardenas or Sagua or Caibarien, 1 or 2 ports, 6,000 bags 



loading 383^c 



Manati or Chaparra, loading at one port only, 6,000 bags loading 39^0 



Other ports east of Caibarien, loading at one port only 41c 



Two ports, 5,000 bags loading 43c 



SoiUh Side Poi-ts to New York bags loading 



Cienfuegos 453^c 6,000 



Santiago 48c 4,500 



Guantanamo 48c 4,500 



Trinidad 51Kc 3,500 



Guayabal 50c 4,500 



Jucaro, Zaza or Manzanillo, loading at one port only 51J^c 3,500 



Jucaro, and a second port to the West 533^c 



Manzanillo and a second port to the East 533^c 



To New Orleans 



Ports in the North or South Side, not east of Caibarien or Cienfuegos 6c less 



If east of the above ports 4c less 



To Savannah or Galveston 



Above rates less 2Hc 



To Boston 



Above rates plus 6c 



All deliveries — 7,500 bags. 



AU freights quoted on gross landed weight. 



