The French administration of Syria is proceeding with plans to improve the port at Beirut which has suffered severely in recent years from the competition which the vastly superior facilities of Haifa, Palestine, harbor offers shipping.
An additional area of 62 acres, making a total of 111 acres, when the improvements are completed, will provide new quay space for five steamers.
Beirut shippers and importers are complaining bitterly that handicapped as they are in competing with Haifa, which now attracts the bulk of shipping, they now have the additional disadvantage of port fees increased by fifty per cent for the handling and storing of goods. This, they assert, is driving shipping and commerce from Syria to Palestine.
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