Junks in Foreign trade show a decrease of 55 vessels and an increase of 153,976 tons. This is due to larger vessels being employed.
In Local Trade (i.e. between places in the waters of the Colony) there is a decrease in Steam Launches of 3,581 Vessels and a decrease in Tonnage of 105,069.
Junks in Local Trade show an increase of 4,201 Vessels entered and cleared and an increase of 54,993 tons.
Of vessels of European construction, 5,912 Ocean-going vessels, 3,927 River Steamers, and 4,249 Steamships not exceeding 60 tons entered during the year giving a daily average of 38.5 vessels as compared with 37.3 vessels in 1927 and 20.8 vessels in 1926
Ocean-going Vessels entered as follows:
Flag Vessels No. of times entered Total Tonnage 1927 1928 1927 1928 1927 1928 British 346 371 5,702 5,562 8,466,960 8,786,202 Japanese 264 250 1,109 1,016 2,927,207 2,829,121 U.S.A. 79 83 245 251 1,495,775 1,471,424 Chinese 81 75 1,315 1,670 847,073 812,037 German 43 60 151 163 487,160 561,429 Danish 11 14 48 70 153,341 196,780 Dutch 41 36 251 245 849,766 823,506 French 32 33 246 312 629,144 724,176 Italian 6 5 26 26 141,566 143,918 Panamanian 1 1 388 Norwegian 61 74 472 419 657,005 613,765 Portuguese 5 5 73 81 15,526 14,380 Swedish 9 11 30 43 103,182 128,955 Mexican 1 1 1,183 Total 997 1,018 9,669 9,859 16,774,788 17,109,051