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CHINA
22,968,122
20,632,819
The total tonnage entered at the 34 leading ports of the world during 1938, the last year for which comprehensive figures are available, is shown hereunder:
New York London
Kobe (1937) Rotterdam Istambul
Osaka (1936)
....
Tons.
36,529,626
Lisbon Los Angeles
Boston
30,776,918 28,362,538
...: 27,809,541
Vancouver
Tons. 13,097,643
12,430,120
11,998,682
11,620,493
Sydney
11,536,242
Aruba
11,430,124
Hamburg...
20,567,311
Antwerp
19,794,423
Houston Naples
...
11,304,232
11,299,998
Hongkong (1937).
18,131,943
Genoa
...
Philadelphia...
17,824,266
Havre
...
Liverpool...
Marseilles
Singapore Curaçao
17,627,805
Yokohama
11,240,207 10,867,393 10,551,753
San Francisco'
17,248,641
Montevideo
16,031,486
Bremen...
10,183,479 9,842,871
15,622,348
Shanghai (1938)
...
9,742,768*
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14,736,100
(1939)..
12,054,215†
Buenos Aires
14,212,973
Montreal
8,589,519
Southampton
13,468,875
Melbourne
13,315,628
New Orleans
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8,578,270
Including 1,737,495 steamer tonnage entered from inland places.
1,482,398 12.
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regards shipping generally in China, the effects of the closure of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers and the blockade of the coast, it will be seen that total entries and clearances at Chinese ports amounted to 51.9 million tons only as compared with 59 million tons in 1938, 90 million tons in 1937, and 145 million tons during 1936. By flags, the order of importance was: British shipping, with 145 million tons during 1936. By flags, the order of importance was: British shipping, with 19.2 million tons; Japanese shipping, 15.7 million tons; Norwegian ship- ping, 3.2 million tons; Chinese shipping (excluding junks), 2.7 million tons; German shipping, 2.1 million tons; Netherlands shipping, 1.8 million tons; and Italian, Danish, and French shipping with approximately 1.1 million tons each. Of the reduced total of 51.9 million tons of shipping entered and cleared, 29.8 million tons entered from and cleared to foreign ports as compared with 29.4 million tons in 1938, while 22.1 million tons as compared with 29.7 million tons entered and cleared coastwise. These figures do not include the tonnage of vessels plying under Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations. In regard to shipping with abroad, the leading ports in China were: Shanghai, with 50.33 per cent of the total tonnage as compared with 34.58 per cent in 1938; Tsingtao, with 10.46 per cent as compared with 6.13 per cent; Tientsin, with 10.34 per cent as compared with 11.56 per cent; Chinwangtao, with 8.37 per cent as compared with 7.13 per cent; Amoy, with 5.07 per cent as compared with 3.73 per cent; Swatow, with 4.17 per cent as compared with 7.56 per cent; and Canton, with 0.34 per cent as against 10.08 per cent in 1938.
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Further analysis of the shipping trade shows the percentage share of the total entrances and clearances taken by the leading flags during the year under
1eview:
FOREIGN TRADE. Per cent.
DOMESTIC TRADE. Per cent.
TOTAL TRADE.
Per cent.
British Japanese
27.82
49.48
37.04
40.21
17.02
30.34
Norwegian
5.20
7.71
6.27
Chinese (excluding Junks)
2.29
9.11
5.19
German
3.98
4.25
4.10
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