CHINA
Tons.
New York
35,489,210
London
30,868,381
Osaka
Kobe
Rotterdam
Philadelphia
Hongkong
Hamburg
28,986,489
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23,247,489
20,632,819
19,111,7€6
San Francisco
18,964,135
Singapore
... 18,922,431
Los Angeles
Antwerp
Shanghai (1936)
(1937)
Liverpool ..... Marseilles
18,826,779*
...... 13,254,437†
17,085,293
16,544,728
15.801.076
15,179 220
12,593,785
Tons.
18,895,376
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* Including 2,761,259 steamer tonnage entered from inland places.
†
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2,041,718
99
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In connexion with the figure 13.254.437 given above for the total tonnage entered at Shanghai during the year 1937, it should be pointed out that of this total 12,094,723 tons were entered during the period January to August, with tonnage for the period September to December amounting to 1,159,714 tons only due to the outbreak of hostilities. Further, it may be mentioned that the tonnage entered for the half-year January to June was 9,693,530 tons, so that, had the year continued normally, Shanghai's total tonnage entered during 1937 should have amounted approximately to 19,387,060 tons, giving the port of Shanghai sixth place in world tonnage on the basis of the 1936 figures.
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In regard to shipping generally in China, affected-as was Shanghai-by hostilities and the Japanese blockade of the China coast, reference to the Ship- ping tables appearing with this volume shows that total entries and clearances at Chinese ports amounted to 90 million tons only as compared with 145 million tons during 1936. By flags, the order of importance was: British shipping, 36.1 million tons; Chinese shipping (excluding junks). 21.6 million tons; Japanese shipping, 12.8 million tons; Norwegian shipping, 4.2 million tons; American shipping, 2.1 million tons; German shipping, 2.1 million tons; Netherlands shipping, 2 million tons; and French shipping, 1.4 million tons. Of the reduced total of 90 million tons of shipping entered and cleared, 35.4 million tons were entered from and cleared to foreign ports as against 45.2 million tons during 1936, while 54.6 million tons as compared with 99.8 million tons for 1936 were entered and cleared coastwise. These figures do not include the tonnage of vessels plying under Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regula- tions. In regard to shipping with abroad, the leading ports in China were: Shanghai, with 31.94 per cent of the total tonnage; Canton, with 12.78 per cent; Swatow, with 8.39 per cent; Tsingtao, with 7.55 per cent; Tientsin, with 5.73 per cent; Amoy, with 5.17 per cent; Chinwangtao, with 4.08 per cent; and Kowloon, with 4 per cent.
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Further analysis of the shipping trade shows the percentage share of the total entrances and clearances taken by the leading flags during the year under review:
DOMESTIC TRADE.
FOREIGN TRADE. Per cent.
TOTAL TRADE.
Per cent.
་
Per cent.
British
36.51
42.43
40.10
Chinese (excluding junks)
8.32
34.15
23.98
Japanese
19.18
11.02
14.23
Norwegian
5.33
4.24
4.67
German
4.48
0.92
2.32
American
4.69
0.73
2.29
Netherlands
3.27
1.55
2.22
In view of the increase in operating costs, freight rates on the China coast were raised 10 per cent as from the 1st May 1937..
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