SUEZ CANAL TONNAGE
RECORD IN 1937
47.28 PER CENT. BRITISH
(Received March 24, 1.30 p.m.)
LONDON, March 23
The total tonnage of shipping which passed through the Suez Canal in 1937 was 28,559;935, compared with 27,999,836 tons in 1936, constituting a record, even allowing for the abnormal traffic dua to. the Abyssinian war.
The tonnage increased from the .spring of 1936 to a maximum in April, 1937. The percentage of British shipping of the total was 47.28 in 1937 and 49 per cent, in the last quarter of the year. *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 10
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