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FRANCE

French. Foreign.

Total

Marseille Le Havre Cherbourg Bordeaux Boulogne Dunkirk. Rouen. Calais. Nantes. St. Nazaire La Rochelle Dieppe. Cette. Caen

Entered (1919) Vessels Tonnage

6,579 27,059

33,638

2,8H

2,193

4S1

1,110

2,388

1,725

5,138

2,20(1

668

556

599

1,150

1,499

704

6,022,000 16,812,000

2,S34,000

4,496,000

3,138,000

492,000

1,631,000

1,249,000

1,422,<'00

3,354,000

468,000

691,000

845,000

843,000

3S5,000

566,000

338,000

Cleared (1919)

Vessels

3,637 8,737

12,374

2.09S

1,064 218 882

1,251 290 266 573 216 45 175 388

1,188 73

Tonnage

3,612,000 5,777,000

9,389,000

2,426,000

1,485,000

247,000

1,003,000

978,000

240,000

142,000

£04,000

175,000

89,000

155.000

128,000

346,000

17,000

Internal Communications. I. Rivers, Railways, etc.

On January 1, 1912, there were in France 23,899 miles of national roads, in addition to the vicinal roads.

Navigable rivers (1911), 5,450 miles ; actually navigated, 3,822 miles ; canals, 3,104 miles ; actually navigated, 3,052 miles ; rivers navigable for rafts, 1,908 miles. In 1913 there were 3,620 miles of canals; in 1919 a programme was adopted for the extension and improvement of the canal system.

By a law of 1842, the construction of railways was left mainly to companies, superintended, and if necessary assisted, by the State ; which now constructs lines which the companies work, and works on its own account one important State system. There are lines of local interest subventioned by the State or by the departments. The concessions granted to the six great companies expire at various dates from 1950 to 1960 ; the periods of State guarantee of four of them terminated at the end of 1914, and will do so in the case of the others in 1934 and 1935.

The length of line open for traffic in 1919 was 25,167 miles of lines, made up as follows : —

-

Miles

-

Miles

State

Nord (Northern)

Est (Eastern) ....

Paris-to-Orleans

Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean

Midi (Southern)

5,586-8 2,146-4 8jlM-7

4,7so I 6,0642

• I.V9

Paris Belt Line Grand Belt Line

Total ....

Secondary companies (mostly departmental railways)

19-9

77-7

97-6

839 -.'.

10-8

Nnii concessionary roads

Grand Total. . . 1

19-9

Total ....

25,1«7S