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9. During the year 1904, 14,922 vessels of European construction of 19,227,312 tons (net register), reported having carried 10,572,844 tons of Cargo as follows:-

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Import Cargo Export

Transit

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21

Bunker Coal shipped

.... 4,150,639 tons.

2,605,861

>>

3,151,926

37

664,118

10,572,844 tons.

The total number of tons carried was, therefore, 54.4% of the total net register tonnage, (or 76.7% exclusive of River Steamers), and was apportioned as follows:-

Imports.

British Ships,

Foreign Ships,...

2,399,704

1,750,935

4,150,639

Exports.

British Ships,

1,579,051

Foreign Ships,..

1,026,810

2,605,861

Transit.

British Ships,

2,105,696

Foreign Ships....

1,046,230

3,151,920

Bunker Coal. -

British Ships,

Foreign Ships....

332,310 '332,108

664,418

Grand Total,

10,572,844

Trade of the Port of Hongkong for the Year 1904.

Tons.

Passengers.

No. of Ships.

Dis- charged.

Shipped.

2,054 20,323

21,658

16,976 4,170,692 | 2,627,519 | 3,151,926

Junks trading to Ports out-

side the Colony,

36.251 580,353

822,255

Total Foreign Trade,

Steam-Launches

53.227 4,751,315 | 3,449,774 | 3.151,926

plying

within waters of the Colony,

307,502

British Ocean-going, Foreign Ocean-going, British River Steamers, Foreign River Steamers...

Total.......

Steam-Launches trading to l'orts outside the Colony,

Total........

14,922 | 4,150,639 | 2,605,861 | 3,151,926

4,318 2,153.1721.415.673 5,696 1,703,251 ! 983.65+ 5,872 246.532 183.373 1,036 47,684

43,156

In Transit.

2,105,696

Bunker Coal shipped.

Total.

Register ed Tonnage.

Arrived.

Departed.

1,046,230

289,317 | 5,963,858 325,891 4,059,026

7,708,734 197,844 5,350,847

91,352

Emi- grants.

113,741 51,390 61,239 24,914

42,993 152,903 6,217 97,057

5,697,360

470,371

664,418 10,672,844

19,227,312

1,092,564 46,027

1,427,787

1.040.250

52,745

1,269.975

76,301

!

6,393 48,374 105,784

7,060

8,610

670,811 10,621,218 19,333,096 1,434,847 1,278,585 76,304

1,402,608 3,072,270

43,192

42,155

670,811 12,023,826 | 22,405,366 1,478,039 1,320,740 76,304

Junks, Local Trade,...

Total Local Trade.

62,965 340,087 45.361

370,467 340,087

45,861

Grand Total........ 423,694 | 6,091,402 | 3,495,135 | 8.151,926

25,401 25.401 $,808,714 385,448 2,348,676

4,435.105 79,066

4,435,072 79,508

25,401 410,849 | 11,157,420

4.514,171

4,514,580

696,212 12,434,675 | 33,562,780

5,992,210

5,855,320 76,304