SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION
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Total trade between France and United Kingdom for 5 years (in thousands of pounds) : —
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1916
1917
1918
n,tn
!:-'•:■,:
1919
147,S«4
1920
Imports from France int^ UK Kxiort* to France from U. K. .
-.v.. -.-, 93,830
111,673
VMM
136,631
Shipping and Navigation.
On December 31, 1915, the French mercantile navy consisted of 15,161 sailing vessels, of 561,361 tons net, with crews 41,151, and 1,939 steamers of 1,066,139 tons, and crews numbering 17,002, plus 12,060, mechanicians and drivers.
Of the sailiug vessels 143 of 14,058 tons net were engaged in the European seas, and 209 of 813,789 tons net in ocean navigation ; of the steamers 279 of 337,344 tons net were engaged in European seas, and 239 of 633,246 tons net in ocean navigation. The rest were employed in the coasting trade, in port service, or in the fisheries.
At the Quinquennial Census, June, 1912, of ships sailing on inland waters, the total was 15,141, of which 12,483 were Freuch, 2,168 Belgian, 475 German, and 15 Dutch. These ships had a population of 44,724 (17,875 men, 10,457 women, and 16,392 children).
For three years the navigation of vessels with cargoes at the French ports was as "follows, excluding the coasting trade :—
Entered
V«Mall
Tonnage
Teasels Tonnage
French Foreign .
27,244
4,983,0t«>
r&9,oor>
Frer.ih . 1 oreign .
Total .
7,985 11,222
K000 3,»i86,000
Total
' 32,768
20,7 1
6,600,000
1913 French . Foreign .
>>,0tvj 33,251
4,523,000 15,325,000
19,848,00"
1918 French . Foreign .
Total .
2.909 7,190
. .000 2,930,000
Total
10,099
5,255,000
1910 French . Foreign .
•3,579 27,059
6,022,000 16,8!
1919 French . Foreign .
Total
3,0*7
8,737
3,613,000
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Total
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22,834,000
12,374
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Shipping in foreign trade in 1919, and its distribution among French ports, is shown as follows with cargoes only : —
