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8. The total reported Import Trade of the Port for 1903 amounted to 24,819 vessels of 10,959,293 tons, carrying 7,392,220 tons of cargo, of which 4,517,370 tons were discharged at Hongkong. This does not include the number, tonnage, or cargo of Junks, or Steam Launches employed in Local Trade.
Corgo.
Country.
CLASS I.
Ships.
Tons.
Discharged. In transit.
Canada,
Great Britain,
Mauritius,
24
68,807
10,749
Continent of Europe,
United States of America,
137
254,396
143,851
225,350
166
506,686
234,419
592,898
3
3,357
2,250
154
511,668
233,774
117,066
CLASS II.
484 1,344,914
625,043
935,314
Australia and New Zealand,...
52 103,267
71,530
26,741
India and Straits Settlements,
250
613,212
407,716
467,954
Japan,.......
449
1,036,061
974,380
343,557
Java and Indian Archipelago,
163
259,959
313,202
60,494
North Pacific,
5
1,994
2,260
Russia-in-Asia,
5,309
143
CLASS III.
921
2,019,802 1,769,088
898,889
North Borneo,
43
65,058
68,337
6,509
Coast of China,
1,651
2,194,805
287,075
905,844
Cochin-China,
195
214,297
244,255
48,870
Formosa,
112
88,230
30,034
Philippine Islands,
319
504,707
70,832
8,825
Hainan and Gulf of Tonkin,
351
253,499
237,080
62,899
Siam,
308
358,098
353,248
4,000
Kiaochow,
1
3,883
1,000
3,600
Weihaiwei,
9,465
500
200
Macao,
30
7,427
2,027
CLASS IV.
3,014 | 3,699,469 | 1,294,388 | 1,040,747
River Steamers,-Canton, Macao and West
River,
2,832 | 2,454,868
296,791
CLASS V.
Steam-launches trading to Ports outside the
Colony,.......
1,765 93,239
15,288
CLASS VI.
Junks in Foreign Trade,
15,803 1,347,001
516,772
Total,..
24,819 10,959,293 | 4,517,370 | 2,874,950