the railroads for certain types of short haul. Nearly all truck ship- 

 ments of canned fish froin Terminal Island, California, are made on a 

 minimum of 30,000 pounds or an equivalent of around 1000 cases of can- 

 ned tuna. 



Most of the canned tuna shipped via truck is destined for San 

 Francisco and Sacraraemto, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, Western 

 Idaho, and Central Oregon. Movements of canned tuna to Portland, Ore- 

 gon are usually made via railroad or by boat. Shippers indicate 

 that boat rates are more favorable to Western Oregon than are truck 

 freight rates. Shipments of canned tuna to Denver, Colorado, are 

 usually made by railroad instead of motor carrier since railroads 

 have comparable rates and terminal connections from the West Coast 

 Area to that city. 



The majority of canned tuna shijanents via inter-coastal boats 

 were to the Northeastern United States. A small amount was shipped 

 to South Atlantic ports. Rates lower than those via railroad and 

 low carload minimum requirements are maintained to Atlantic seaboard 

 points. These low cost factors of boat transportation are important 

 to many packers of canned tuna, especially smaller ones, and buyers. 

 Smaller concerns not packing in quantities that would allow them to 

 take advantage of the higher railroad minimum carloads can utilize 

 boats and obtain carload rates for shipments as low as 20,000 pounds. 



Available data indicate that there was a slight increase in 

 the shipments of canned tuna via inter-coastal boat in 1952 as com- 

 pared with 1950. It also shows that approximately one aid one-half 

 percent of light-meat, solid pack, canned tuna shipped by those 

 West Coast companies which furnished transportation infoxmBtion in 

 this survey was destined for South Atlantic ports. The outstanding 

 disadvantage of boat transportation presently is the slow delivery 

 time. 



If it is considered that the transportation Tunction is a nec- 

 essary service which must be utilized to place canned tuna in the 

 conSumer''s> hands, and if the particular advantages or disadvantages 

 of one form over the other are disregarded there are certain gen- 

 eralizations that can be made regarding canned tuna shipments. Prao- 

 tically all forms of rates for this comodity are regulated and the 

 great bulk of it is shipped under commodity rates. Commodity rates 

 are previously published in tariff form, as inquired by the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission, and other regulatory bodies. From the 



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