1224
RUSSIA : — FINLAND
The total number of steam engines was in 1910, 1,585 ; horse-power 100,153 ; 1,304 electric engines ; and 320 other engines.
Commerce.
The exterior trade of Finland appears as follows, in thousands of marks (francs) : —
1900
1910
1911
—
Imports
Exports
' Imports
Exports
Imports
Exports
from
to
i from
to
from
to
Russia
117,229
71,808
109,676
79,496
137,516
89,043
Sweden and
Norway .
19,239
9,057
20,099
12,665
21,580
14,339
Denmark .
19,236
8,610
20,858
9,952
23,071
11,653
Germany .
144,577
31,590
150,680
34,720
173,373
46,474
Gt. Britain
41,307
78,330
45,708
85,482
61,724
88,132
Spain
1,851
7,262
2,315
9,791
2,217
8,727
France
5,292
20,750
5,754
24,594
6,436
27,100
Various
18,390
28,747
10,990
33,442
18,587
34,082
Total
567,127
257,054
384,089
290,142
444,504
319,550
(14,685,100/.) (10,282,2007
) (15,363,560Z.) (11,605,680/.) (17,780,000/.)
(12,782,000/.)
The chief articles of export are : timber (167,037,000 marks in 1911, as against 91,200,000 in 1898), butter (34,028,000), paper, paper mass, and cardboard (58,169,000), iron and iron goods (23,114,000), textiles, leather, hides, tar, pitch and fish.
The chief imports were : cereals (101,010,000 marks), coffee and chichory (23,874,000), sugar (19,659,000), iron and ironware (23,113,000), cotton (14,001,000), cottons (7,795,000). machinery (23,667,000), chemicals, leather ware, tobacco, colours, oils, leather and hides.
Shipping and Navigation.
Number of vessels entered and cleared in 1911 : —
Entered
Cleared
No.
Tons
No.
Tons
Finnish . . .
Russian
Foreign . . .
C,016 1,031
2,552
1,065,099
188,413
1,436,963
5,970
999
2,540
1,038,417
181,166
1,428,702
Total .
0,599
2,690,475
9,509
2,648,285
The Finnish commercial navy numbered on January 1, 1912, 2,959 sailing vessels of 327,625 tons, and 487 steamers, 72,013 tons ; total, 3,446 vessels of 399,638 tons.
Internal Communications.
For internal communications Finland has a remarkable system of lakes connected with each other and with the Gulf of Finland by canals. The
