Comparative Shipping Return for the Years 1904 and 1905.
1004,
1905.
Increase.
Decrease,
Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Ton unge.
British Ocean-
going.
4.318 7,708,734 8,095 7,672,824
LIF
323 36,410
Foreign Ocean-
going,
3,695 5.850,847, 3,845¦ 5,820,785. 3:10 469,938,
Brizish Hiver Steamers, .. Foreign River
Steamers,.....! S'ships under 60 tons (Foreign Trade)..........
5,872
1,036
6,697,860, 7,183 | 5,534,022) 1,616
143,338
470,371 975 659,597
180,226
61
2,051
105,784 1,800 71,448)
201
84,836
Junks in Foreign
Trade,
(36,251 | 3,072,270 33,475 | 2,875,440;
2,776 196,830
Total,. Steamlaunches
plying in the Colony,
53,227 22,405,366 51,578 22,653,616| 1,766 | 659,16 3,414 410,014
207,502 8,808,744 337,918 9,169.312 (30,411|| 360,588|
Junks in Local
Trade,
f
62,965 | 2,348,676 63,267 2,362,163
302
13,487
AL
Grami Total, 423,604 | 93,562,786 | 452,758 | 34,185,091 82,478 3,083,219 3,414 410,914
NET,
29,001 622,305)
521
The following Tables show the nationality of the steamers and sailing vessels that visited the port
Flag.
STEAMERS.
Ships.
No. of Times
entered.
Total Tonnage.
British,
498
1904. 1905. | 1904. 1905. 1904. 1905.
4002,1511,983 3,843,3553,806,792
Austrian,
13
Belgian,
1:
1
Chinese,
15
14 180
10 32 26 102,349 88,326
1 2,017
1,794 165 241,085) 214,720
Danish,
13
18
26,817 24,206
Dutch,
9
10
44
35
84,379 77,205
French,
36
39
238
207
231,977 288,911
German.
147
163
861
887 1,268,835 1,394,255
Italian,..
6
है
20
56 38,212 51,492
Japanese,
30
10
51.
20 114,951 34,573
Norwegian,
60 $5 253
346
276,211 581,479
Portuguese,.
4
53
69
12,167 11,800
Russian,
5
14,578 2,903
Spanish,
2
6,017
Swedish,
2
12
19
8,582
20,210
United States,.
24
22 64
62 232,857 314,101
1
1
2,500)
* Including 32,424 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 1,176,625 tone. † Including 32,424 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 1,176,625 tons.
For Ocean Vessels under the British Flag, this Table shows a decrease of 320 ships of 36,410 tons. This decrease loses any significance it may at first sight appear to possess when viewed in conjunction with my report for 1904, where an increase appeared of 352 ships of 930,300 tons, which was shown to be practically due to special circumstances connected with the late war. These special circumstances being removed with the advent of the Baltic Fleet in Far Eastern waters in April, 1905, the shipping tended to return to its normal state, and we are left with a not increase over the figures for 1903 (neglecting those for 1904) of 32 ships and 893,890 tons.
In British River Steamers there is an increase shown of 1,616 ships, which is due to the additional small steamers put on to the West River run, and to two very small craft plying between here and Mirs Bay, which have been treated as River Steamers, though they do not strictly satisfy the definition. The decrease in tonnage, of 143,338 tons, is accounted for by the fact that three moderate sized vessels were taken off the run carly in the year, and much smaller craft substituted.
For Foreign Ocean Vessels an increase of 149 ships of 469,938 tons is shown. Here, again, reference to my 1904 report is necessary in order properly to appreciate the signifi- cance of the figures. During that year, on account of the war, there was the enormous decrease of 1,149 ships of 1,910,589 tons, of which Japanese shipping accounted for 834 ships of 1,809,000 tons. The causes militating against the employment of Japanese ships were not removed until late in 1905, indeed, they are not completely removed even now, so that the increase now shown is but the partial restoration to normal conditions, and should really be read as a net decrease, on the figures for 1903, of 1,000 ships of 1,440,951 tons.
In Foreign River Steamers the decrease of 61 ships is due to the fact that two sinall Chinese vessels have become British, and the increase in tonnage to the more frequent running of two moderate sized French Steamers,
The remaining increases and decreases do not present any points of importance, with the exception of the large increase in Steam Launches plying within the waters of the Colony, which affords good evidence of the enhanced internal traffic in the Colony.
The actual number of ships of European construction (exclusive of River Steamers and Steam Launches) entering during the year was 889, being 506 British and 383 Foreign.
These 889 ships entered 3,926 times, and gave a total tonnage of 6,756,600 tons. Thus, compared with 1904, 4 more ships entered 61 less times, and gave a collective tonnage in- creased by 212,890 tons.
No Flag,
Total,
859
8673,981 3,904 6,509,919|6,712,767
SAILING VESSELS.
Ships.
No. of Times entered,
Total Tonnage.
Flag.
1904. 1905. 1904. 1905.
1904.
1905.
British, Dutch,
11
16 11
16
1
French,
2
19,447 84 3,444
32,258
+
German,
47
2,193
Italian,..
994
Norwegian,
3,651
1,199
Sarawak,
1,338
2,867
8,183
919
United States,.
No Flag,
Total,
25
22
26 22 32,791
43,833
During the year 1905, 16,303 vessels of European construction, of 19,706,728 tons (nett register), reported having carried 10,277,939 tons of cargo, as follows:--
Tons.
Import cargo, Export Transit
.3,869,751
.2,343,701
"}
..3,415,418
*
Bunker coal shipped,
649,069
10,277,939
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