for the entire year 195U, are explainable in part in terms of a sluggish 

 market sitiiation which found many wholesalers overstocked. In November 

 19?U coverage was expanded by including data on frozen breaded holdings 

 with data on frozen headless shrimp which were the only inventory statis- 

 tics previously collected. 



Cold Storage Costs 



Cold storage chatrges for a sample of public refrigerated ware- 

 houses located at important production and consumption centers were tab- 

 ulated from rate schedules supplied by the companies as follows: 



TABLE VII - 16.— MONTHLY COLD STORAGE CHARGES FOR FROZEN SHRIMP 

 PROHJCTS IN SELECTED METROPOLITAN MARKETS, 1956 



Tampa, 

 Fla. 



Phila., 

 Pa. 



Chicago, 

 111. 



Chicago, 

 111. 



New York, 

 N.Y. 



New 

 Jerseyi 



Company 



Handling 



15,000 lbs. and over 

 10,000-15,000 lbs. 

 5,000-10,000 lbs. 

 2,000-5,000 lbs. 

 Under 2,000 lbs. 

 Shrimp (green) 1/ 



Storage 



15,000 lbs. and over 

 10,000-15,000 lbs. 

 5,000-10,000 lbs. 

 2,000-5,000 lbs. 

 Under 2,000 lbs. 

 Shrimp (green) 1/ 



BCD 

 (Dollars per hundredweight) 



.1(2 



.1^2 



E 



.30 



.30 



1/ In 50 pounds containers . 



Note: The above tariffs were taken from rate schedules obtained from the respectii 

 companies in answer to a request for currently applicable charges. 



72 



