Excerpt from Report on the Working of the State Railways Coal Department: For the Calendar Year 1913 Over 500 cargoes of coal are despatched from Kidderpore Docks yearly and a number of these are found to be on fire on arrival at destination. In consequence of this in recent years the premium for insurance of coal cargoes against fire risk has been largely increased, and some ship owners have shown an unwillingness to carry coal cargoes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.