The World's Second Port

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 35, 1 September 1904, Page 15

The World's Second Port

New York (says an American exchange) is the second port of the world, in tonnage entered. That is the gratifying fact discioseti by tlhe latest official itatisiu-s. London is of course, , first, with a tonnage of 10,179, .023 ; as is befitting the largest city in the world. New York being the second city in size, it is also fitting that it should be the second in commerce, but its 9, 058, 906 tons bring it much closer to London in commerce than it is in population. Hamburg S'tiantfp a el'ose tlurd, wiflh 8,684,000 tons, ajnd Antwerp is fourth, with 8,425,127. Hong Kong claims fifth place, with 8,253,591, not counting junks, while Liverpool, which once was second or third, has fallen to the sixth place, with only 6,843,200, where it is closely pressed by Rotterdam and Marseilles.

An impressive indication of New York's vast superiority over other American port's is in the fact that, awhile New York stiands an easy second en the world's list, the next American port, Boston, is away down in ■the twenty-first place, being surpassed by • Lisbon, Buenos Ayres, Algiers, Havana, and cithers, while the •third American port, Philadelphia, can claim no better than the thirtieth place, below Barcelona, Yokohama, And Bordeaux. Our fourth is New Orleans, in the fortyfirst place, below Gothenburg, but above Montreal ; while Baltimore, in the forty-fourth place, between T Odessa and Valparaiso ; the Puget Sound ports, in the fifty-second, and San Francisco, in the fifty-eighth place, complete the list of American ports among the largest sixty in the world.