Report of the Special Mission to Egypt under Lord Milner, and related papers [‎133r] (267/473)

(iii) Shipping at Egyptian Porte,
Tho table which follows shows the numbers and net tonnage
of vessels recorded at Egyptian ports in 1919, The dominance
of the British flag is somewhat less than might have been
ejected from the preceding tables* The excess of arrivals
over departures with cargo is presumably related to the sailing
of a larger proportion of British (and American) vessels than
of other vessels without cargo, these vessels having brought
coal to Egypt, The tonnage of goods landed or loaded was, it
will be notod, not in the same -proportion to ship tonnage for
all flags.
Similarly, in the table showing entries and clearances
by Countries, the proportion of cargo tonnage to net tonnage of
the vessels carrying it is markedly less for some of the
countries specified than for the general average of all
countries or for others of the principal countries specified.
Year 1919,
%
1 r* fn o T 1 +.Tr
Steamers Entering at and Clearing from Ports in Egypt,
of
Vessels.
Entered with cargo
Cleared with c
argo.
No. of
Hat
Tons of
No. of
Net
Tons of
Steam-
Registered
;cargo dis-
Steam-
Registered
cargo
ers.
Tonnage.
charged.
ers.
Tonnage.
shipped.
British
649
1,123,559
1,556,755
579
869,670
852,729
American ..,
37
04,940
47,561
33
66,687
22,456
French .,...
56
153,367
9,562
55
151,471
18,578
Greek
99
66,680
15,371
108
68,409
45,561
Italian ,•••
179
306,069
' 34,683
196
326,785
91,012
Japanese ...
Other Nation-
42
-
91,184
99,431
46
101,498
101,338
alities ..
159
166,838
130,921
178
167,328
117,425
TOT....
1,221
1,992,637
1,894,284
1,195
1,751,848
1,249,109
Table/