115
Of Junks in Local Trade 1,019,507 tons entered, and 1,023,148 tons cleared.
Thus :-
British Ocean-going vessels represented...
Foreign Ocean-going vessels represented
British River steamers represented.
21.9%
21.6
%
14.7 %
Foreign River steamers represented
Steamships under 60 tons, Foreign Trade represented
Junks in Foreign Trade represented....
2.3%
0.1%
8.0%
Steamships under 60 tons, Local Trade represented
25.2%
6.2 %
Junks in Local Trade represented
100.0
2. Seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-two (7,772) steamers, 14 sailing vessels, and 439 steamships under 60 tons in foreign trade, entered during the year, giving a daily average entry of 22.5, as compared with 24.81 in 1905. If the figures for foreign trade Junks are added, the daily average would be 61.4, as against 70.5 in 1905.
3. A comparison between the years 1905 and 1906 is given in the following table :-
1005.
1906.
Increase..
Decrease.
Ships Tonnage. Ships. Tounage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage.
British Ocean-
going:
3,095 | 7,072,324 | 3,697|| 7,189,471 :
208 482.853
3,845 | 5,820,785 | 4,287 7,098,495
442 1,272,710
1,800
7,488 | 5,531,022 | 6,404|| 4,842,501
975 659,597 | 1,071 667,917
71,448 878 40,282
1,024 711,521
96 8,320
922 31.166
5,322 | 236,020
Foreign Ocean-
going, British River
Steamers, Foreign River
Steamers,... S'ships under 60 tons (Foreign Trade)..
Junks in Foreign'.
Trade,...
Total,
Steam launches
plying in the Colony,
Juuks in Local
Trade,
33,475 2,875,440 |28,153 | 2,0619,411
51,578 | 22,653,616 (44.550 22,453,077
9,169,312 338,0 8,251,536
337,914
¡68,207; 2,362,163 51,616|| 2,042,655
538 1,281,030 7,566 1,481,569
4,353 917,776
![1,651 319.508
Grand Total,..., 452,758 34,185,091 | 429,726 | 32,747,268|
538 1.281,03023,570 2.718,853
NETT,
* Including 32,424 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 1.176.625 tons. Including 23,430 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 858,746 tons.
23,032 1,437,823
4. For Ocean vessels under the British Flag, this Table shows a decrease of 298 ships of 482,853 tons. This decrease is mainly due to vessels under the Japanese Flag returning to their various routes at the conclusion of the late war, thereby supplanting several British vessels which had been chartered in their stead, and partly to the disappearance of tramp steamers which carried stores for the opposing fleets; and eliminating the 893,890 tons ascrib- ed in last year's Return as an abnormal increase, practically due to the state of war existing, a legitimate increase to the British Flag is shown, amounting to 411,037 tons.
In British River steainers there is a decrease of 1,024 ships of 711,521 tons shown, which is due to the serious disasters that befell these steamers during the typhoon on the memorable 18th of September, and to the gutting by fire of the Hankow in the following month. During the necessary repairs of the crippled vessels, coasting steamers of small size were utilised in some instances by the different companies.