HONGKONG
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The total of the Shipping entering and clearing at ports in the Colony during the year 1922 amounted to 708,244 vessels of 46,566,764 tons, which, compared with the figures for 1921, shows an increase of 35,564 vessels and of 3,145,794 tons. Of the fore- going, 50,427 vessels of 29,543,564 tons were engaged in foreign trade, as compared with 52,222 vessels of 27,852,616 tons in 1921. A comparison between the years 1921 and 1922 is given in the following table :-
No.
1921.
1922.
Increase.
Decrease.
Tonnage. No. Tonnage. No. Tonnage. No. Tonnage.
Class of Vessels. British Ocean-going.. 4,630 9,247,198
British River Steamers 5,743
441,693 83
211,933 876
4,547 9,688,891
Foreign
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5,827
10,817,413
6,095 12,282,271
266 1,463,698
1,810
3,519,294 4,866 3,731,227 580,088 2,244 732,715
434 152,627
6,687
195,727 6,520 200,363
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Steamships under
Foreign
60 tons (Foreign
Trade)
Junks, Foreign Trade 27,525 3,491,736 26,155 2,908,097
Total, Foreign Trade.. 52,222 27,852,616 50,427 29,543,564
Steam - launches)
4,636 167
1,370 583,639
700 2,274,587 2,496 583,639
plying in Waters (597,386 14,174,320 639,554 15,903,758 42,168 1,729,438 of Colony
Junks, Local Trade... *23,072 *1,394,034 +18,263 +1,119,442
4,809 274,592
Grand Total....672,680 43,420,970 708,244 46,566,764 42,868 4,004,025 7,305 858,231
Net Increase......35,564 3,145,794
The actual number of individual ocean-going vessels of European construction during 1922 was 1,092, of which 410 were British and 682 foreign. In 1921 the corresponding figures were 988, of which 343 were British and 645 foreign. These 1,092 ships measured 3,202,516 tons. They entered 5,318 times and gave a collective tonnage of 11,000,748 tons. Thus 104 more ships entered 86 more times and gave a collective tonnage greater by 956,326 tons, an average of 11,120 tons per entry.
A Parliamentary paper issued in August, 1905, showed Hongkong to be, in respect of tonnage, the largest shipping port in the world. The trade chiefly consists of cotton, sugar, salt, flour, oil, cotton and woollen goods, cotton yarn, opium, matches, metals, earthenware, amber, ivory, sandalwood, hetel, vegetables, granite, etc. There is an extensive Chinese passenger trade, chiefly restricted, however, to the Straits Settle- ments, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, Siam, and Indo-China.
Hongkong possesses unrivalled steam communication. The P. & O. S. N. Co. and the M. M. Co. between them maintain a weekly mail service to Europe. The Pacific Mail S.S. Co., the Toyo Kisen Kaisha and the Java Pacific Line maintain a service with San Francisco, and the Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., maintain a regular mail service with Vancouver, B.C. The Bank Line, Ltd., and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha run regular steamers to Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle and to Tacoma; and the Bank, Admiral, Prince and Castle lines maintain regular services to New York. The Australian Oriental Line and the Eastern and Australian Line keep up a regular monthly service with the Australian Colonies, and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha maintains services to Europe, Australia, and the United States (Seattle). The Toyo Kisen Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha both connect with South American ports, the latter line also calling at Cape Town. The Natal Line provides sailings to South-African ports. In addition to all these, several great lines of merchant steamers run between ports in Great Britain and Hongkong, of which the China Mutual S.S. Co., Ocean S.S. Co. (Blue Funnel line), and the Glen, Bank, Mogul, Ben, Royal Mail, Shire, Barber, and Shell lines are the most conspicuous. The Norddeutscher Lloyd,
* Including 11,922 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 895,788 tons.
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