SUEZ CANAL TRAFFIC
DECLINE IN TONNAGE UNDER AVAR CONDITIONS. The report for 1916 on the Suez Canal traffic shows a considerable fallini;olf in tonnage compared with the preceding years. The number of vessels passing through the canal during the past three years, with the tonnage, were as follows:— Net Ton. dec. Ships, tonnage, on 1914. 1914 4,602 19,409,495 - 1915 3.706 15,206,155 4,145,340 1916 3.H0 12,325,347 7,084.148 The gross traffic receipts fell from £4,889,952 in 1914 to £3,234,496 in 1916. Last year the tonnage of British vessels was 9,788,190, compared with 11,656,038 tons in 1915 and 12,91.0,278 in 1914. The tonnage of German vessels decreased from 3,352,287 in 1913 to 2,118,946 tons in 1914, and disappeared altogether in 1915 and 1916. The number of troops carried through the canal last year amounted to 235,441, as against 119,812 in 1915 aiul 228,720 in 1914. There was an increase of 66,421 French, 37.892 Uri'ffch, 8617 Russian, and 3014 Italian in 1910 compared with 1915. Civilian passengers numbered 45,743 in 1916 as compared with 86,653 in the preceding year.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 58, 1 December 1917, Page 14
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175SUEZ CANAL TRAFFIC Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 58, 1 December 1917, Page 14
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