Page:Statesman's Year-Book 1921.djvu/321

 SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION

269

Total trade between Egypt and U. K. (in thousands of pounds sterling) fur 5 years (Board of Trade returns) : —

Imports from Egypt into U. K Exports to Egypt from U.K.

British produce

Foreign and Colonial produce

191 3 (pre-war>

1917

i

21,3951 9,8051

14,793 306

22,202

1MB*

32,484 54,151 60,671 69,336

19,405 43,662

1,170

1 Including Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

- Provisional figures.

Shipping and Navigation.

In 1919, excluding warships and Teasels requisitioned by the military authorities, 4,607 steamers of a net i>.. image of 12,534,974

entered at, and 4,511 steamers of a net registered tonnage of 12,569,929 departed from, all the Egyptian porta (Alexandria, Port Said, Snez Basin, Suez Road. Tor, and El Kosseir). These figures include Suez Canal transits. The total number of sailing vessels (both foreign and coasting trade, but excluding sponge and fishing boats) that entered the ports was 1,395 of 71,267 net tons, and of those that departed, 1,424 of 70,613 n«t tons.

Arrivals and departures of commercial steamers at Alexandria in six vears : —

Tear

Arrivals Depar

Steamers

Net Steamers registered tonnage T —

Net

registered tonnage

1913

19151

19161

1917 1

191S1

19191

1,932 958 554 346 839 726

3.71S.650 1,927 1,57* 989

966,673 705

641,060

73106-2 895 1,830,702 785

3,698,396 1.6S2.869 1,343,867 687.6S4 900,192 1,862,431

1 Excluding supplies and military transports. The mercantile steamers visiting the port of Alexandria in 1919 comprised

Natienalitv

Arrivals

Departures

Steamers

Net registered tonnage

Steamers

Net i registered tonnage

.

334

703,267

340

i

734,969

French

30

30,740

30

78.S65

Greek.

61

38,099

64

40,621

Italian

124

-37.870

124

260.556

American

18

1 44.026

Norwegian.

20

22

Japanese

29

1 B

_ ;

59.866

Russian

28

20.2S7

M

20.2-7

Swedish

16

30,004

15

27,963

Spanish

19

12,724

20

13,034

Other.

42

41,410

44

41,449

Total (All Shi

pping)

TS6

1,330,702

735

1,362,431