[PeterPrinciple]

Canal Tolls Still Dropping
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The July traffic figures for the Panama Canal, made public today by the War Department, showed a continuance of the decline which was first manifest in April. The peak for the year was in March, when 506 ocean-going vessels, paying $2,015,585.34 in tolls, passed through the canal. Since then traffic had dropped steadily until July, when 429 vessels paying tolls were cleared. These paid $1,694,205.

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Why would shipping have declined? protectionism? anticipation of war? Side note that the avg toll was about $4,000 then. Wonder what it is now.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Why would shipping have declined?

I wondered about that myself. Was the depression deepening that late?

Side note that the avg toll was about $4,000 then. Wonder what it is now.

According to a Wikipidea explanation it depends on the cargo size, but seems to run around $200,000 for a loaded container ship.