"ملاحظات اللورد كرزون عن بلاد فارس" [و‎‎٥‎٣‎٣] (١٣٨٦/١٠٦٧)

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vessels only 660 tons. The total number of vessels under foreign flags which
entered and left last year was 1,341, aggregating 885,304 tons, the principal
flags being:
No.
Tons.
Austrian
. 100
181,939
German
. 138
180,996
Italian
. 114
177,200
French
. 121
116,404
Arab
. 620
79,994
Norwegian
. 68
61,877
American
• 31
44,043
Total
. 1,192
842,453
There has been some material increase in Austrian and Italian shipping in
recent years, and the German flag on the whole shews a tendency to increase
though fluctuating. But all the others are more rarely seen in Indian ports than
used to be the ase.
The native craft employed in the foreign trade do not increase. They
represent less than 24 per cent of the whole tonnage. Except for intercourse
with the Straits and the Malayan Archipelago, Ceylon, the Maldives, and the
Coast from Karachi to Maskat, these craft will no doubt eventually disappear
from the foreign carrying trade, and be superseded by steamers.
The following table shews the share of each of the maritime provinces of
India in the movement of shipping with cargoes in the last five years :
1885-86.
1886-87.
1887-88.
1888-89.
188990.
Bengal .
( No.
1,160
1,145
1,147
1,066
1,042
(Tons .
1,568,322
1,646,298
1,683,421
1,656,576
1,675,515
No. .
1,969
2,025
2,027
1,939
1,86a
Bombay.
(Tons .
2,049,235
2,139>483
2,142,791
2,175,685
2,004,030
( No.
828
712
795
767
927
Sind
(Tons .
504,004
419,899
363,892
413,602
492,701
( No. .
3,476
3,537
3,692
3,588
3>52o
Madras .
<
(Tons .
1,192,454
1,170,488
1,200,274
1,105,546
1,195,697
g” - g.
(No. .
1,014
1,052
1,003
768
894
Burma .
(Tons .
945,842
959,417
1,045,425
816,187
980,567
The proportion last year was—
Bombay and Sind, about 39 per cent.
Bengal „ 26 „
Madras „ ig „
Burma „ 15 „
The proportion of shipping in Madras is nearly double the proportion which
that Presidency has of the foreign trade, but there is an active intercourse of
native craft between the coasts of Madras and the Maldives, Ceylon, and the
Archipelago. These greatly swell the tonnage.