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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The actual number of individual ocean vessels of European construction entered during 1913 was 791, of which 361 were British and 430 were foreign. In 1912 the corresponding figures were 724, 336 British and 388 foreign.
These 791 ships measured 2,045,076 tons. They entered 4,447 times, and gave a collective tonnage of 8,873,806 tons. Thus, 65 more ships entered 292 more times, with a collective tonnage increased by 687,670 tons, an average of 2,355 tons per ship.
Flag Steamers Number of times entered Total Tonnage 1912 1913 1912 1913 1912 1913 British 335 359 1,977 2,099 3,892,354 4,209,950 Sailing 1 2 1 2 + Japanese 123 164 592 1,572,194 1,907,307 German 98 106 637 1,129,054 1,107,453 Norwegian 26 29 168 189 173,145 182,633 Austrian 10 12 46 51 153,624 168,063 Chinese 30 26 236 233 275,310 272,166 Danish 6 6 11 13 28,927 34,433 Dutch 18 15 112 128 246,352 242,928 French 26 22 142 155 229,532 284,628 Italian 4 2 13 7 31,403 18,312 Portuguese 5 5 101 114 49,494 52,009 Russian 18 21 35 34 103,998 86,021 Swedish 6 7 14 12 37,262 31,497 U.S.A. 18 15 70 73 260,597 270,987 TOTAL 724 791 4,155 4,447 8,186,136 8,873,806Trade.
The remarks with which this section of the Harbour Master's Report has always opened, as to the unreliability of the figures supplied by shipmasters, were never more fully justified than this year, the discrepancies between the quantities of various items reported and the actual quantities, which in some cases it has been possible to discover, being very marked.
Imports. Under this heading, which includes all cargo landed or transhipped in the Colony from ocean vessels and river steamers (not from junks or steam-launches), a total of 4,956,125 tons was reported, which, compared with that reported for 1912, shows the enormous increase of 804,000 tons, or nearly 20 per cent.
Of this total, the imports of coal, case oil, rice, timber, and general show increases, while cotton goods, flour, bulk oil, and liquid fuel show decreases.
Coal. Here an increase is reported of 75,000 tons, or 7 per cent.