Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Indexes of Transportation Rates for Fishery Products
The railroads lead in transporting canned fish, fish oil, and fish meal. They haul significant quantities of fresh and frozen fish on the longer routes, but this traffic on the shorter hauls has been largely taken over by motor carriers. Increases in the postwar years accelerated the upward movement of rail-freight rates; in April 1952, the tenth gen eral increase since the end of World War II was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The rail-freight index (table 4) was developed from 36 representa tive routes (table 1) for the follow ing categories: canned fish; fish, fresh or frozen; fish meal; and fish oil. An index for each category was computed separately, and the indexes were averaged to give an index for all fishery products and byproducts.
The rail-freight index for all fishery products and byproducts registered percent higher in 1952 than in the base year 1947.
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