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 SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION

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Total trade between France and United Kingdom for 5 years (in thousands of pounds) : —

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1916

1917

1918

n,tn

!:-'•:■,:

1919

147,S«4

1920

Imports from France int^ UK Kxiort* to France from U. K..

-.v.. -.-, 93,830

111,673

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136,631

Shipping and Navigation.

On December 31, 1915, the French mercantile navy consisted of 15,161 sailing vessels, of 561,361 tons net, with crews 41,151, and 1,939 steamers of 1,066,139 tons, and crews numbering 17,002, plus 12,060, mechanicians and drivers.

Of the sailiug vessels 143 of 14,058 tons net were engaged in the European seas, and 209 of 813,789 tons net in ocean navigation ; of the steamers 279 of 337,344 tons net were engaged in European seas, and 239 of 633,246 tons net in ocean navigation. The rest were employed in the coasting trade, in port service, or in the fisheries.

At the Quinquennial Census, June, 1912, of ships sailing on inland waters, the total was 15,141, of which 12,483 were Freuch, 2,168 Belgian, 475 German, and 15 Dutch. These ships had a population of 44,724 (17,875 men, 10,457 women, and 16,392 children).

For three years the navigation of vessels with cargoes at the French ports was as "follows, excluding the coasting trade :—

Entered

V«Mall

Tonnage

Teasels Tonnage

French Foreign.

27,244

4,983,0t«>

r&9,oor>

Frer.ih. 1 oreign.

Total.

7,985 11,222

K000 3,»i86,000

Total

' 32,768

20,7 1

6,600,000

1913 French. Foreign.

>>,0tvj 33,251

4,523,000 15,325,000

19,848,00"

1918 French. Foreign.

Total.

2.909 7,190

. .000 2,930,000

Total

10,099

5,255,000

1910 French. Foreign.

•3,579 27,059

6,022,000 16,8!

1919 French. Foreign.

Total

3,0*7

8,737

3,613,000

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Total

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22,834,000

12,374

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Shipping in foreign trade in 1919, and its distribution among French ports, is shown as follows with cargoes only : —