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NETHERLANDS

Much of the trade here entered as with the Netherlands consists of goods on transit from and to Germany, notably the imports of silk goods and metal goods.

Total trade between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (in thousands of pounds sterling) for 5 years (Board of Trade Returns) : —

1916

1917

1918

1919

1920

Imports from Netherlands to U.K. Exports to Netherlands from U.K.

£ 22,138 24,056

19,903 20,796

£

7,670 14,986

£

21,658 34,316

£

39,202 47,914

Shipping and Navigation.

The number of vessels in the mercantile navy at the end of 1919 was : — Sailing vessels 283, of 27,713 English tons ; steamers 570, of 804,307 English tons.

The following table gives the number and tonnage (in English measure- ment) of vessels which entered and cleared the ports of the Netherlands : —

Entered

Tear

With Cargoes

In Ballast

Total-

No.

Tonnage

No.

Tonnage

285,746 1,088,191 1,339,106

794,431 3,587,044 8,184,277

No.

Tonnage

1918 1919

1,464 5,047

1,377,347 6,009,525

315 1,435

1,779

7,082 11,114

1,906 7,470 11,420

1,663,003 7,097,710

1920

» 1918 1919

1920

8,317

1,290 4,408

7,712

6,691,234

905,878 3,663,276 4,911,739

2,797 Cleared.

676 3,062 3,708

8,030,400

1,700,309

7.250,320 8,096,niii

Of the total number in 1920, 3,824 Dutch vessels entered with a tonnage of 2,756,133, and 7,290 foreign vessels with a tonnage of 5,276,799 ; 3,929 Dutch vessels cleared, with a tonnage of 2,803,816, and 7,491 foreign vessels with a tonnage of 5,292,200.

The vessels with cargoes which entered at the chief ports were as follows : —

Entered.

Port

Number

8,425

1,000

177

1919

1920

Tons

per cent.

Number

Tom

per cent.

Rotterdam Amsterdam. Flushing. . Hook of Boused.

4,163,530

1,099,152

107,127

69-1 18 2

2-7

1,015

1,660

SOS

383

4,082,352

1,148,417

209,049

237,538

63-7

22 41 4 4

Cleared.

Rotterdam.

2,66]

.,702

621

3,823

2,S'.'5,101


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Amsterdam.

734

iteo;904

18-0

1,222

866,291

is-o

Flushing

828

190,698

..•8

810

204,601

4 5

Hook of llollan.l.

—

—

298 1

229,312

4 4