THE SUEZ CANAL TRAFFIC.
AN INCREASE. > A return issued by the Suez Canal Company shows that the net tonnage of the steamers that passed' through the canal in 1901 increased^ compared with 1900, from '9,738,152 tons to 10,823,840 tons. Those under the British flag rose on the year from 5,605,421 tons to 6,252,819 tons, and the German from 1,466,392 tons to 1,762,624 tons. The French tonnage, however, only advanced) from 751,759 tons to 756,782 tons. The other principal countries' which show an increase were Holland, from 506,976 tons to 508,578 tons ; Russia, from 307,173 tons to 363,685 tons ; Spain, from 109J985 tons to 112,721 tons; Italy, "from 158,565 tons to 176,401 tons ; Norway, from 68,187 tons to 76,096 tons; and Turkey, from 29,490 tons to 47,220^, tons. The countries in which there was a decline on the year were Japan, from 245,679 .t0ns to 237,338 tons; the United States, from ,54,499 tons to 45,027 tons; Denmark, from 72,672 tons to 56,746 tons; Belgium, from 12,376 tons to 4873 tons.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7435, 23 June 1902, Page 2
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169THE SUEZ CANAL TRAFFIC. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7435, 23 June 1902, Page 2
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