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Excerpt from Ocean Transportation, Vol. 4
It has been the endeavor of the author to con vey as much practical information as possible within the compass of the limited pages at his dis posal. His chief concern has been not to give a vast amount of information, however interesting It might be, but to Show exactly how ocean freight should be prepared for shipment and how it is handled from start to finish. In other words, ' we shall endeavor to teach the steps, the methods, the means, and the practices essential in transport ing goods into and out of our country Via ocean carriers.
The authority for many of the statements in the text, concerning export methods, is the book Practical Exporting, by B. Olney Hough, whose very interesting Reading Assignment, entitled Romance in Overseas Trading, accompanies this text. The student should supply himself with Mr. Hough's book and read it carefully. It has been selected as a reference book to further clarify the subjects presented in this text, because of its very complete and admirable treatment of the sub ject of Exporting in all of its phases.
Valuable information and interesting data may be obtained also from two other books; namely.
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