Hamburg Gets Business Back
Great Harbor Projects Under Way. Ten Years Will See Another German Fleet.
February 15 1923
HAROLD NORMAN DENNY
Hamburg Gets Business Back
HAROLD NORMAN DENNY
IN TEN years’ time Germany will have as great a merchant fleet as she had before the war. Though she has been stripped of all the great ships that carried her goods into every corner of the world, Germany is rebuilding her commerce on a sound foundation and with determined hope, because we here realize that world trade is essential tothe life of our country.” This was the utterance of a German shipping official, according to Harold Norman Denny, writing for The New York Times. The observation was made during a discussion of Hamburg’s stupendous harbor and the projects that are already under way to enlarge that port. Commenting on this statement, Mr. Denny remarks:—