Great Ports of the World.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 March 1906, Page 109

Great Ports of the World.

The commerce of the great ports of the world is the subject of a very interesting report which has been issued by the Washington Bureau of Commercial Statistics. Taking the aggregate of the imports and exports of the different ports, it is shown that the two most important ports are London first and Liverpool second, with New York a good third In the order of aggregate trade the various ports are as follows :—: — London .. £260,915,000 Liverpool .. 260,103,000 New York . . 221, 396,000 Hamburg . . 196,303,000 Antwerp . . 197,223,000 Marseilles .. 86,311,000 Calcutta - 58,881,000 Bombay .. 51,054,000 Singapore . . 42,794,000 Sydney . . . . 37,792,000 Shanghai . . 37,628,000 Alexandria . . 33,030,000 Meloourne .. 30,612,000 Montreal . . 29,680,000 Capetown .. 26,595,000